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Feininger, Andreas
American (b. France, 1906-1999)

TITLE ON OBJECT: New York, 1940 - Looking over 42nd Street from Chanin Building; left Lincoln Tower, right 500 Fifth Avenue

1940
gelatin silver print
35.2 x 28.5 cm.
Gift of the photographer
78:0606:0157

NON-GEH NUMBER: 120

BIBLIOGRAPHIC REFERENCE: Feininger, Andreas. --New York in the Forties.-- New York: Dover Publications, Inc., 1978. p. 87.//

INSCRIPTION: verso-(rubberstamp) "Foto: Andreas Feininger" (signed) "A. Feininger v (circled) 1940" (in pencil) "New York 1940 - Looking over 42nd Street from Chanin Blgd; left Lincoln Tower, right 500 Fifth Ave" "120 (circled)" "4..."

copyright, Andreas Feininger

NOTES: Catalogued 1/94, DZ. Caption from --New York in the Forties-- reads, "As seen from the Chanin Building, the street (42nd Street) has an air of respectable commerce, with the Lincoln Building at left and the needlepoint protrusion of the Salmon Tower at 500 Fifth Avenue at right."

SUBJECTS:
cityscape, aerial perspective
architecture, skyscrapers
street scene, figures in

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