45 Rockefeller Plaza

Fay Sturtevant Lincoln

1938 · Gelatin silver print · Photographs

The photograph depicts the recently completed interior of the Chase National Bank, designed by Reinhard and Hoffmeister. The softly glowing lights and flamelike reflections on the cloverleaf columsn recall the devotional tapers burning inside cathedrals. Whether the photographer recognized the irony of the sacred reference in a bank, or only recorded it, is not known.

Artist

Fay Sturtevant Lincoln

Date

1938

Medium

Gelatin silver print

Department

Photographs

Credit line

Ford Motor Company Collection, Gift of Ford Motor Company and John C. Waddell, 1987