The Cleveland Museum of Art
Collection Online as of April 19, 2024
Starrett Lehigh Building
July 1936
(American, 1898–1991)
Image: 19.8 x 24.5 cm (7 13/16 x 9 5/8 in.); Paper: 20.2 x 25.5 cm (7 15/16 x 10 1/16 in.)
John L. Severance Fund 2007.21
© Berenice Abbott/Getty Images
Location: not on view
Description
Raised in Springfield, Ohio, Abbott went to Paris to study art and took up photography when she became Man Ray’s studio assistant. She moved to New York in 1929. Shocked by the rapid changes in the urban landscape, she dedicated much of her life to documenting New York’s new buildings and its fast-disappearing historic ones. Abbott made this image while working for the Federal Art Project during the Great Depression. The upward, wide-angle view emphasizes the massiveness of the factory warehouse, which still occupies a full block in the Chelsea neighborhood. Opened in 1931, the building was notable for applying modernist architectural principles to industrial architecture.- (Harry Lunn, Ltd., Washington, DC)(Edwyn Houk Gallery, New York, NY)2007David Raymond [b. 1979], New York, NYThe 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. 157, p. 193.
- Forbidden Games: Surrealist and Modernist Photography. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (October 19, 2014-January 11, 2015).
- {{cite web|title=Starrett Lehigh Building|url=false|author=Berenice Abbott|year=July 1936|access-date=19 April 2024|publisher=Cleveland Museum of Art}}
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