id: 147857
accession number: 1974.215
share license status: Copyrighted
url: https://clevelandart.org/art/1974.215
updated: 2024-03-26 01:59:36.022000
Smokestacks, Otis Steel Co., Cleveland, 1928. Margaret Bourke-White (American, 1904–1971). Vintage gelatin silver print; image: 33.7 x 25.9 cm (13 1/4 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 1974.215 © Estate of Margaret Bourke-White / Licensed by VAGA at Artists Rights Society (ARS), NY
title: Smokestacks, Otis Steel Co., Cleveland
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creation date: 1928
creation date earliest: 1928
creation date latest: 1928
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creditline: Gift of Mrs. Albert A. Levin
copyright: © Estate of Margaret Bourke-White / Licensed by VAGA at Artists Rights Society (ARS), NY
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culture: America, 20th century
technique: Vintage gelatin silver print
department: Photography
collection: PH - American 1900-1950
type: Photograph
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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.
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measurements: Image: 33.7 x 25.9 cm (13 1/4 x 10 3/16 in.); Matted: 61 x 50.8 cm (24 x 20 in.)
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inscription: Written in pencil on recto: "Bourke-White [signed]"
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CURRENT EXHIBITIONS
title: Year in Review: 1974
opening date: 1975-03-11T04:00:00
Year in Review: 1974. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (March 11-April 6, 1975).
title: Photographs of Margaret Bourke-White
opening date: 1976-05-08T04:00:00
Photographs of Margaret Bourke-White. The New Gallery of Contemporary Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (May 8-June 5, 1976).
title: Industrial Photography of the Early 20th Century
opening date: 1976-12-04T05:00:00
Industrial Photography of the Early 20th Century. Canton Museum of Art, Canton, OH (organizer) (December 4, 1976-February 13, 1977).
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: Cleveland Art Comes of Age: 1919-1940
opening date: 1989-06-28T04:00:00
Cleveland Art Comes of Age: 1919-1940. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (June 28-September 10, 1989).
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LEGACY EXHIBITIONS
* {'description': 'CMA, March 11 - April 6, 1975: "The Year in Review for 1974," CMA Bulletin, 62 (March 1975), repr. p. 82.', 'opening_date': '1975-03-11T00:00:00'}
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RELATED WORKS
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CITATIONS
The Cleveland Museum of Art. Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1978. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1978.
page number: Reproduced: p. 259
url: https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1978/page/n279
Cleveland Museum of Art, Tom E Hinson. Catalogue of Photography. Cleveland, OH: Cleveland Museum of Art, 1996.
page number: Reproduced: P. 103
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