id: 147859 accession number: 1974.217 share license status: Copyrighted url: https://clevelandart.org/art/1974.217 updated: 2024-03-26 01:59:36.033000 Industrial Scene: Tower and Smokestacks at Otis Steel Co., Cleveland, 1928. Margaret Bourke-White (American, 1904–1971). Vintage gelatin silver print; image: 25.7 x 33.6 cm (10 1/8 x 13 1/4 in.); matted: 50.8 x 61 cm (20 x 24 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Gift of Mrs. Albert A. Levin 1974.217 © Estate of Margaret Bourke-White / Licensed by VAGA at Artists Rights Society (ARS), NY title: Industrial Scene: Tower and Smokestacks at 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: Vintage 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: 25.7 x 33.6 cm (10 1/8 x 13 1/4 in.); Matted: 50.8 x 61 cm (20 x 24 in.) state of the work: edition of the work: support materials: inscriptions: inscription: Written in pencil on recto: "Bourke-White [signed]" translation: remark: --- 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: American Cities: The Artist's View opening date: 1989-10-17T04:00:00 American Cities: The Artist's View. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (October 17, 1989-January 7, 1990). title: Steel and Real Estate(s): Margaret Bourke-White and Corporate Culture in Cleveland opening date: 2000-03-27T00:00:00 Steel and Real Estate(s): Margaret Bourke-White and Corporate Culture in Cleveland. The College of Wooster Art Museum, Wooster, OH (organizer) (March 27-June 5, 2000). --- LEGACY EXHIBITIONS * {'description': 'Wooster, OH: The College of Wooster Art Museum "Steel and Reasl Estate(s): Margaret Bourke-White and Corporate Culture in Cleveland" 3/27-6/5/00, exh. cat. no. 82.', 'opening_date': '2000-06-05T00:00:00'} --- 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