id: 153254
accession number: 1986.219
share license status: Copyrighted
url: https://clevelandart.org/art/1986.219
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"Hot Pigs," Otis Steel Company, Cleveland, 1928. Margaret Bourke-White (American, 1904–1971). Gelatin silver print; image: 34.3 x 25.7 cm (13 1/2 x 10 1/8 in.); matted: 61 x 50.8 cm (24 x 20 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Robert M. Levin 1986.219 © Estate of Margaret Bourke-White / Licensed by VAGA at Artists Rights Society (ARS), NY
title: "Hot Pigs," Otis Steel Company, Cleveland
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creation date: 1928
creation date earliest: 1928
creation date latest: 1928
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creditline: Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Robert M. 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: 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: 34.3 x 25.7 cm (13 1/2 x 10 1/8 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 for 1986
opening date: 1987-02-04T05:00:00
Year in Review for 1986. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (February 4-March 15, 1987).
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LEGACY EXHIBITIONS
* {'description': 'CMA, February 4 - March 15, 1987: "Year in Review 1986," CMA Bulletin, 74 (February 1987), p. 63, no. 59.', 'opening_date': '1987-02-04T00:00:00'}
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PROVENANCE
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RELATED WORKS
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CITATIONS
Cleveland Museum of Art, Tom E Hinson. Catalogue of Photography. Cleveland, OH: Cleveland Museum of Art, 1996.
page number: Reproduced: P. 102
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