id: 146824 accession number: 1972.244 share license status: Copyrighted url: https://clevelandart.org/art/1972.244 updated: 2024-03-26 01:59:31.895000 "Hot Pigs," Otis Steel Co., Cleveland, 1928. Margaret Bourke-White (American, 1904–1971). Gelatin silver print; image: 34.1 x 25.8 cm (13 7/16 x 10 3/16 in.); matted: 61 x 50.8 cm (24 x 20 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Gift of Mrs. Albert A. Levin 1972.244 © Estate of Margaret Bourke-White / Licensed by VAGA at Artists Rights Society (ARS), NY title: "Hot Pigs," Otis Steel Co., Cleveland title in original language: series: series in original language: creation date: 1928 creation date earliest: 1928 creation date latest: 1928 current location: creditline: Gift of Mrs. Albert A. Levin copyright: © Estate of Margaret Bourke-White / Licensed by VAGA at Artists Rights Society (ARS), NY --- culture: America, 20th century technique: gelatin silver print department: Photography collection: PH - American 1900-1950 type: Photograph find spot: catalogue raisonne: --- CREATORS * Margaret Bourke-White (American, 1904–1971) - artist Margaret Bourke-White American, 1904-1971 Margaret Bourke-White was a preeminent photojournalist who gained fame for her striking images published in Fortune and Life magazines in the 1930s-50s. In 1922, while at Columbia University Teachers College in her native New York City, Bourke-White studied photography with Clarence White. She attended several other colleges before graduating from Cornell University (1927), then moved to Cleveland. The city's industrial landscape was influential in the development of Bourke-White's photographic style. One of her images from this period, Romance of Steel, was a first-place winner in the Cleveland Museum of Art's 1928 May Show, a regional juried exhibition. The following year Bourke-White moved back to New York to work for Henry Luce's new business magazine, Fortune. In 1934 she was sent by the magazine to cover the drought in the Midwest, an assignment she credited with awakening her social conscience. Three years later she collaborated with writer Erskine Caldwell on You Have Seen Their Faces, an acclaimed study of the plight of rural Southerners during the Great Depression. Bourke-White's long association with Life began in 1936 when she joined the magazine as one of its first staff photographers. When it premiered on November 23, 1936, her photographs of Fort Peck Dam in Montana were featured on the cover and in the lead story. During her career, Bourke-White covered many major world events: the Great Depression, World War II, the partitioning of India, and the Korean War. She continued to photograph throughout the 1950s, publishing her images in magazines and in a number of books, including Eyes on Russia (1931), North of the Danube, with Erskine Caldwell (1939), Say, Is This the U.S.A.?, with Erskine Caldwell (1941), Shooting the Russian War (1942), Dear Fatherland, Rest Quietly (1946), Halfway to Freedom: A Report on the New India (1949), and Portrait of Myself (her autobiography, 1963). M.M. --- measurements: Image: 34.1 x 25.8 cm (13 7/16 x 10 3/16 in.); Matted: 61 x 50.8 cm (24 x 20 in.) state of the work: edition of the work: support materials: inscriptions: inscription: Written in pencil on recto of mount: "#4"; "Bourke-White [signed]" translation: remark: --- CURRENT EXHIBITIONS title: Year in Review: 1972 opening date: 1973-02-27T05:00:00 Year in Review: 1972. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (February 27-March 18, 1973). title: 130 Years of Ohio Photography opening date: 1978-12-01T05:00:00 130 Years of Ohio Photography. Columbus Museum of Art, Columbus, OH (organizer) (December 1, 1978-January 3, 1979). title: Urban Vicissitudes opening date: 1985-07-02T04:00:00 Urban Vicissitudes. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (July 2-September 29, 1985). title: Object Lessons: Cleveland Creates an Art Museum opening date: 1991-06-07T04:00:00 Object Lessons: Cleveland Creates an Art Museum. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (June 7-September 8, 1991). title: Transformations in Cleveland Art, 1796-1946 opening date: 1996-05-19T04:00:00 Transformations in Cleveland Art, 1796-1946. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (May 19-July 21, 1996). --- LEGACY EXHIBITIONS * {'description': 'CMA, February 27 - March 18, 1973: "Year in Review 1972," CMA Bulletin 60 (March 1973), p. 113, no. 244.', 'opening_date': '1973-02-27T00:00:00'} * {'description': 'Williamstown, Massachusettes, Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute, 1981 - 1982, October 31, 1981 - December 6, 1981: "Cubism and American Photography," catalogue no. 6, repr. p. 48.', 'opening_date': '1981-10-31T00:00:00'} * {'description': 'Also to: International Museum of Photography at George Eastmen House, Rochester, New York: December 18, 1981 - February 17, 1982.', 'opening_date': '1981-12-18T00:00:00'} * {'description': 'The Toledo Museum of Art: April 30, 1982 - June 13, 1982.', 'opening_date': '1982-04-30T00:00:00'} * {'description': 'The Minneapolis Institute of Art: July 2, 1982 - August 15, 1982.', 'opening_date': '1982-07-02T00:00:00'} * {'description': 'Bowdoin College Museum of Art, Brunswick, ME: September 3, 1982 - October 17, 1982.', 'opening_date': '1982-09-03T00:00:00'} * {'description': 'New York International Center of Photography, March 4 - May 1, 1988: "Margaret Bourke-White."', 'opening_date': '1988-03-04T00:00:00'} * {'description': 'Also to: Detroit, MI, Detroit Institute of Art: May 17 - July 10, 1988.', 'opening_date': '1988-05-17T00:00:00'} * {'description': 'St. Paul, MN, Minnesota Museum of Art: October 16, 1988 - January 1, 1989.', 'opening_date': '1988-10-16T00:00:00'} * {'description': 'Hartford, CT, Wadsworth Atheneum: January 22 - Marach 19, 1989.', 'opening_date': '1989-01-22T05:00:00Z'} * {'description': 'Riverside, CA, California Museum of Photography: April 8 - June 4, 1989.', 'opening_date': '1989-04-08T00:00:00'} * {'description': 'Ft. Worth, TX, Amon Carter Museum: September 16 - November 12, 1989.', 'opening_date': '1989-09-16T00:00:00'} * {'description': 'Main Gallery Rotation (gallery 228): March 24, 2009 - December 7, 2009.', 'opening_date': '2009-03-24T00:00:00'} * {'description': 'Kansas City, MO, Nelson Atkins Museum of Art: December 3, 1989 - February 7, 1990.', 'opening_date': '1989-12-03T00:00:00'} * {'description': 'CMA, February 28 - April 15, 1990.', 'opening_date': '1990-02-28T00:00:00'} * {'description': 'CMA, June 7 - September 8, 1991: "Object Lessons: Cleveland Creates an Art Museum."', 'opening_date': '1991-06-07T00:00:00'} * {'description': 'Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, May 19 - July 21, 1996 "Transformations in Cleveland Art 1796-1946", p.113, fig. 115, p.245.', 'opening_date': '1996-05-19T00:00:00'} --- PROVENANCE --- fun fact: digital description: wall description: --- RELATED WORKS --- CITATIONS Cleveland Museum of Art, Tom E Hinson. Catalogue of Photography. Cleveland, OH: Cleveland Museum of Art, 1996. page number: Reproduced: P. 102 url: --- IMAGES