Collection Highlights
Negro Life at the South
Date:
1859
Object Number:
S-225
Medium:
Oil on linen
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Museum Collections
Luce Center
South West Corner of Park Avenue and 85th Street, New York City, May 1908
Object Number:
Z.2016.5d
Date:
1908
Medium:
Black ink and wash and graphite on paper, laid on page in fragmentary album
Dimensions:
image size: 5 x 7 1/2 in. ( 12.7 x 19 cm )
mounted: 9 1/4 x 10 3/4 in. ( 23.5 x 27.3 cm )
Marks:
inscribed in ink: on obverse: "S.W. CORNER, / PARK AV. 85th ST. / MAY 1908."
inscribed in pencil: on obverse: "SOUTH CHURCH ERECTED ON THIS SITE."
Inscriptions:
Inscribed at lower right in black ink: "S.W. CORNER. / PARK AV. 85th ST. / MAY. 1908."; at lower left in graphite: "SOUTH CHURCH ERECTED ON THIS SITE."
Description:
Cityscape
Credit Line:
Gift of Daniel E. Rile
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.
