About the Artwork
George Washington Bridge "C," New York
1933
Edward J. Steichen
1879-1973
American
Unknown
Gelatin silver print
Image: 10 × 8 inches (25.4 × 20.3 cm) Mount: 16 1/4 × 14 inches (41.3 × 35.6 cm)
Photographs
Prints, Drawings & Photographs
Founders Society Purchase, Lee and Tina Hills Graphic Arts Fund
76.66
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Markings
Inscribed, dated in black pen and ink, on verso of mount, upper right: 1933 | NEW YORK.
Stamped, in black ink, on verso of mount, upper left corner: THE AMERICAN FEDERATION OF ARTS | BARR BUILDING FARRAGUT SQUARE | WASHINGTON, D.C. In black, ink, stamped, on verso of mount, upper left corner, surrounded by a box: NO. 46 [in pencil] IN | A.F.A. | EXHIBITION | NO. 500 [in pencil] In black ink, stamped on verso of mount, centered: PHOTOGRAPH BY STEICHEN | 80 WEST 40th. STREET | NEW YORK | COPYRIGHT.
Provenance
(Halsted Gallery, Birmingham, Michigan, USA)
1976-present, purchase by the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)
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First International Salon of Industrial Photography. Exh. cat., Detroit Institute of Arts. Detroit, 1933, checklist #117.
Bulletin of the DIA 55 (1976): 19, fig. 13.
Photographs from Detroit Collections. Detroit, 1983, p.16, fig. 8 (ill.).
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Credit Line for Reproduction
Edward J. Steichen, George Washington Bridge "C," New York, 1933, gelatin silver print. Detroit Institute of Arts, Founders Society Purchase, Lee and Tina Hills Graphic Arts Fund, 76.66.
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