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Scene from Lower Sixth Ave. New York City

W. Eugene Smith (American, 1918–1978)
1957–1958

Medium/Technique Photograph, gelatin silver print
Dimensions Image: 34.3 × 22.7 cm (13 1/2 × 8 15/16 in.)
Sheet: 34.3 × 22.7 cm (13 1/2 × 8 15/16 in.)
Credit Line The Howard Greenberg Collection—Museum purchase with funds donated by the Phillip Leonian and Edith Rosenbaum Leonian Charitable Trust
Accession Number2018.3557
NOT ON VIEW
ClassificationsPhotographs

DescriptionA detail of this image was used in Life, March 10, 1958, p. 109. While the verso of the print indicates this, it says 1959 which is incorrect.
Greenberg collection lists the title as From "As From My Window I Sometimes Glance" (Lower 6th Ave., NYC)
Provenance2018, sold by Howard Greenberg Gallery, New York, to the MFA. (Accession Date: June 19, 2018)