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3rd Avenue El
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3rd Avenue El

Artist Alan Dunn (American, 1900 - 1974)
Date1926
ClassificationsPainting
Mediumoil
Dimensions30 x 36 in
Credit LineMary Petty and Alan Dunn Bequest
Keyword/Subject
  • figurative
  • urban
  • transportation
Object number2009.0003
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Fragments (51st -3rd Ave. El)
Fragments (51st -3rd Ave. El)
Stuyvesant Van Veen
1955
3rd Ave., New York (El shadows), 1946
3rd Ave., New York (El shadows), 1946
Todd Webb
1946
Third Avenue El (Photomontage)
Third Avenue El (Photomontage)
Barbara Morgan
1936
"We moved it stone by stone from Madison Avenue."
"We moved it stone by stone from Madison Avenue."
Alan Dunn
1936
"Park Avenue at Eighty-sixth. We're to come as we are."
"Park Avenue at Eighty-sixth. We're to come as we are."
Alan Dunn
1959
“You can’t miss it. A big heap of stones, Eightieth Street and Fifth Avenue, just south of the Museum.”
“You can’t miss it. A big heap of stones, Eightieth Street and Fifth Avenue, just south of the Museum.”
Alan Dunn
1968
"Not now, dearest. When we get over to Sixth Avenue you can spit."
"Not now, dearest. When we get over to Sixth Avenue you can spit."
Alan Dunn
1930
"Now, your division is to break through from Central Avenue and fan out into Westchester."
"Now, your division is to break through from Central Avenue and fan out into Westchester."
Alan Dunn
1940
[pub- "Art!"] "Don't tell me! Me, who's been working 5th Ave [pub"workin' Fit' Avenue"] from B. Altman to Woolworth for on to a month now." {pub-"mont' now"]
[pub- "Art!"] "Don't tell me! Me, who's been working 5th Ave [pub"workin' Fit' Avenue"] from B. Altman to Woolworth for on to a month now." {pub-"mont' now"]
Alan Dunn
1927
"Fit' Avenue! Bless me Aunt Hannah, Bruce, if I ain't sick'n tired o' workin' for a lotta foreigners."
"Fit' Avenue! Bless me Aunt Hannah, Bruce, if I ain't sick'n tired o' workin' for a lotta foreigners."
Alan Dunn
1927
"Then turn west from Second Avenue into Forty-ninth Street. About a hundred feet west of Fifth, you'll come to Rockefeller Plaza. They'll know."
"Then turn west from Second Avenue into Forty-ninth Street. About a hundred feet west of Fifth, you'll come to Rockefeller Plaza. They'll know."
Alan Dunn
c 1965
[The 4th Avenue Lunch Bar]
[The 4th Avenue Lunch Bar]
Alan Dunn
1959
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