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Court of the First Model Tenement
Collection of the Lowe Art Museum, University of Miami
Held by the artist.

Court of the First Model Tenement

Artist/Maker (United States, 1898 - 1991)
Date1936 (printed 1979)
Mediumgelatin silver print
Dimensions18 7/8 x 15 3/8"
ClassificationsVisual Works
Credit LineGift of Safra Bank through Vito S. Portera
Terms
    Object number81.0137
    DescriptionThis frontal view of a tenement interior preserves a slice of architectural history. The work's greater legacy is its reflection of social history. The flapping laundry infuses the work with a profound humanism. In isolating and monumentalizing the slum, Abbott elevates the lowly subject to a thing of importance and sympathetic contemplation.
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    Collections
    Collection of the Lowe Art Museum, University of Miami
    Mask
    Teotihuacán
    ca. 250-550
    Collection of the Lowe Art Museum, University of Miami
    Third Avenue El
    Berenice Abbott
    1936 (printed 1979)
    Collection of the Lowe Art Museum, University of Miami
    Laundry at Quezaltenango
    Eadweard Muybridge
    1875
    Collection of the Lowe Art Museum, University of Miami
    Sunday Funnies
    Red Grooms
    1985
    Collection of the Lowe Art Museum, University of Miami
    First Light, First Dawn
    Natasha Duwin
    2005
    Collection of the Lowe Art Museum, University of Miami
    Clothesline and Smoke Stacks, New York City
    Walker Evans
    ca. 1928
    Collection of the Lowe Art Museum, University of Miami
    Clothesline and Smoke Stacks, New York City
    Walker Evans
    ca. 1928
    Collection of the Lowe Art Museum, University of Miami
    Portrait of Jean Baptiste Budes
    Justus van Egmont
    after 1656
    Collection of the Lowe Art Museum, University of Miami
    Cheese Store
    Berenice Abbott
    1937 (printed 1979)
    Collection of the Lowe Art Museum, University of Miami
    Americanoom
    Chryssa
    1963
    Collection of the Lowe Art Museum
    Model for Vertical Motif
    1991
    Collection of the Lowe Art Museum, University of Miami
    Boat Model
    Tumaco-La Tolita
    300 BCE-200 CE
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