The Cleveland Museum of Art

Collection Online as of December 18, 2025

Sepia photograph of the underside of the Hudson River Bridge, an industrial metal arch arcing down from the upper left corner of the photograph to the lower right and empty sky in the lower left corner.

Hudson River Bridge

spring 1930

Berenice Abbott

(American, 1898–1991)
America
gelatin silver print
Image: 23.7 x 17.3 cm (9 5/16 x 6 13/16 in.)
John L. Severance Fund 2007.20
© Berenice Abbott/Getty Images
Location: Not on view

Description

Abbot was commissioned to photograph the construction of Manhattan’s George Washington Bridge for an article in Architectural Record. She drew attention to the industrial structure’s abstract, aesthetic qualities and its height through her choice of camera angle.
  • The artist, New York, NY
    (Julien Levy Gallery, New York, NY)
    1998-10-7
    (Sothebys, New York, NY, Oct. 7, 1998)
    David Raymond [b. 1979], New York, NY
    The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
  • Cleveland Museum of Art, Tom E. Hinson, Ian Walker, and Lisa Kurzner. Forbidden Games: Surrealist and Modernist Photography : the David Raymond Collection in the Cleveland Museum of Art. 2014. cat. no. 120, p. 168.
    Fellah, Nadiah Rivera, William Griswold, Natalie Scenters-Zapico, and Cleveland Museum of Art. Picturing the Border. Cleveland: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 2024. Mentioned and reproduced: p. 63, fig. 12
  • Forbidden Games: Surrealist and Modernist Photography. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (October 19, 2014-January 11, 2015).
    Accommodations of Desire: Surrealist Works on Paper Collected by Julien Levy. Palmer Museum of Art (September 14-December 5, 2004); McMullen Museum of Art, Boston College, MA (January 16-March 27, 2005); Crocker Art Museum, Sacaramento, CA (July 9-September 11, 2005); Portland Museum of Art (January 1-March 19, 2006).
  • {{cite web|title=Hudson River Bridge|url=false|author=Berenice Abbott|year=spring 1930|access-date=18 December 2025|publisher=Cleveland Museum of Art}}

Source URL:

https://www.clevelandart.org/art/2007.20