Detail of the bronze stairway, Château de Chantilly. Photographer and date unknown
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Eudora Welty, "Untitled [Outdoor Stairway, New York]," circa 1935.
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Ben Shahn. The Red Stairway. 1944
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Jan Lauschmann, Castle Staircase, Prague, 1927
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Staircase, Aleppo, Photographer Unknown
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John Singer Sargent, 'Staircase in Capri', 1878, oil on canvas
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Central Staircase in the Grands Magasins Dufayel department store, Paris, late 19th century
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Leonid Chupyatov. Staircase. 1926
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Léon Spilliaert, 'Vertigo, Magic Staircase', 1908, oil on canvas
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Cast iron spiral staircase. Mills Building, San Francisco. Ornamental iron. 1894
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Lyonel Feininger, Yale University Art Gallery, ca. 1954. Designed by Louis Kahn. Construction view of staircase.
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Cyril Edward Power. The Tube Staircase, London Underground, 1929, Linocut
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Gerhard Richter, "Ema (Nude on a Staircase)", 1966, Oil on canvas, 78 3/4" x 39 1/2"
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Genieve Figgis
Nude descending a staircase (2015)
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Shikanosuke Yagaki, Staircase, 1930s Gelatin silver print
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Larry Silver - Lower Level Staircase, Penn Station. 1951
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Hiromu Kira, The Thinker, ca. 1930, (photo location: The Hollywood Reservoir Dam, Los Angeles)
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Louis Thévenet. The Staircase. 1906
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Kahn's Yale Art Gallery staircase is straight out of Battlestar Galactica. The staircase he did across the street at the British Art Center does that amazing "concrete wants to be marble" thing the stairs in his Exeter Library do. While working in a nod to Corbu Carpenter Cntr
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