Rockefeller Center Parking Space | Harvard Art Museums

Identification and Creation

Object Number: 2007.169
People: Berenice Abbott, American (Springfield, Ohio 1898 - 1991 Abbott Village, Maine)
Title: Rockefeller Center Parking Space
Other Titles: Series/Book Title: Changing New York
Classification: Photographs
Work Type: photograph
Date: June 29, 1938
Places: Creation Place: North America, United States, New York, New York City
Culture: American
Persistent Link: https://hvrd.art/o/320305

Physical Descriptions

Technique

Gelatin silver print

Dimensions

image: 18.8 x 24.8 cm (7 3/8 x 9 3/4 in.)

Inscriptions and Marks

stamp: verso, center, stamps in black in: FEDERAL ART PROJECT "Changing New York" PHOTOGRAPHS BY BERENICE ABBOTT [and] DUPLICATE
inscription: Verso, center, in black ink and graphite: Title: Rockefeller Center Parking Space, Place: 40 West 49th Street, Manhattan, Angle of view: From Museum of Modern Art, 15th floor, 14 West 49th Street, Date: June 29, 1938, Neg.# L-16 Code: II.A.2.d

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line: Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Gift of the Charina Foundation
Copyright: © Berenice Abbott/Commerce Graphics
Accession Year: 2007
Object Number: 2007.169
Division: Modern and Contemporary Art
Contact: am_moderncontemporary@harvard.edu
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Exhibition History

32Q: 1320 Social Realism, Harvard Art Museums, Cambridge, 04/13/2016 - 10/05/2016

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