Photograph by Ed Pollard, Canon EOS-1Ds Mark II digital slr-2008.

Chicken Market, 55 Hester Street, Manhattan

Artist Berenice Abbott (American, 1898-1991)

CultureAmerican

DateFebruary 11, 1937

MediumGelatin silver print

DimensionsOverall, Image: 13 3/8 x 10 3/8 in. (34 x 26.4 cm)
Overall, Paper: 14 3/4 x 12 in. (37.5 x 30.5 cm)
Overall, Mat: 24 × 20 in. (61 × 50.8 cm)

InscribedOn verso "Photograph Berenice Abbott, Abbott, Maine 04406

Credit LineGift of Joyce F. and Robert B. Menschel

Object number2007.12.3

Not on view

DescriptionThis gelatin silver print is mounted directly onto archival paper. This print is of a store front with wording in Yiddish and "Chicken Market" in English. There are chickens hanging in the window.

ProvenanceCollection of Robert B. and Joyce F. Menschel, New York; Chrysler Museum of Art, Norfolk, Virginia, Gift of Joyce F. and Robert B. Menschel, 2007 Exhibition History"Let's Go Shopping," Selden Arcade, Norfolk, VA, March 19 - June 8, 2013.Published ReferencesElizabeth McCausland, _New York in the Thirties: As Photographed by Berenice Abbott_ (New York: Dover Publications, Inc.. 1967), 30. ISBN: 0-486-22967-X Formerly Titled: "Changing New York"