id:			167886
accession number:	2009.477
share license status:	Copyrighted
url:			https://clevelandart.org/art/2009.477
updated:		2025-02-15 12:46:41.393000

Street Cleaners, 1947. Ilse Bing (American, 1899–1998). Gelatin silver print; image: 32.5 x 26.7 cm (12 13/16 x 10 1/2 in.); paper: 35.2 x 27.7 cm (13 7/8 x 10 7/8 in.); matted: 61 x 50.8 cm (24 x 20 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Gift of David Raymond 2009.477 © Estate of Ilse Bing

title:				Street Cleaners
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creation date:			1947
creation date earliest:		1947
creation date latest:		1947
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creditline:			Gift of David Raymond
copyright:			© Estate of Ilse Bing

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culture:	America
technique:	gelatin silver print
department:	Photography
collection:	PH - American 1900-1950
type:		Photograph
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CREATORS

* Ilse Bing (American, 1899–1998)  - artist
Ilse Bing (American, b. Germany, 1899-1998). Ilse Bing became interested in photography while pursuing a doctoral degree in art history at Frankfurt University. Around 1927-28 she began taking photographs to illustrate her dissertation and in 1930 decided to move to Paris to look for freelance assignments. Using the new 35mm Leica camera, she worked as a fashion, portrait, and architectural photographer, as well as a photojournalist. During her years in Paris she took part in numerous exhibitions, including the Museum of Modern Art's Photography 1839-1937 show in New York. In 1941 Bing and her husband immigrated to the United States, settling in New York City. In New York she began to work on a different scale, using the larger-format Rolleiflex camera as well as electronic flash. By 1957 she was working exclusively in color. Two years later Bing gave up photography to concentrate on painting and poetry.
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measurements: Image: 32.5 x 26.7 cm (12 13/16 x 10 1/2 in.); Paper: 35.2 x 27.7 cm (13 7/8 x 10 7/8 in.); Matted: 61 x 50.8 cm (24 x 20 in.)
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	inscription:	Written in pencil on verso of print: "Ilse/Bing/1947"
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	inscription:	Written in pencil in top left corner of verso of print: [?]"OB"
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	inscription:	Written in black ink in lower left margin of recto of print: "ILSE BING"
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CURRENT EXHIBITIONS

	title:		Accommodations of Desire: Surrealist Works on Paper Collected by Julien Levy
	opening date:   2004-09-14T04:00:00
	<i>Accommodations of Desire: Surrealist Works on Paper Collected by Julien Levy</i>. Palmer Museum of Art (September 14-December 5, 2004); McMullen Museum of Art, Boston College, MA (January 16-March 27, 2005); Crocker Art Museum, Sacaramento, CA (July 9-September 11, 2005); Portland Museum of Art (January 1-March 19, 2006).

	title:		Forbidden Games: Surrealist and Modernist Photography
	opening date:   2014-10-19T00:00:00
	<i>Forbidden Games: Surrealist and Modernist Photography</i>. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (October 19, 2014-January 11, 2015).

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LEGACY EXHIBITIONS

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PROVENANCE

	(Edwynn Houk Gallery, New York, NY)
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	David Raymond [b.1979], New York, NY
	date: 2009
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	The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
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CITATIONS

	Schaffner, Ingrid, Julien Levy, and Colin Westerbeck. Accommodations of Desire: Surrealist Works on Paper Collected by Julien Levy. Pasadena, Calif: Curatorial Assistance, Inc, 2004.
	page number: 	p. 69
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	Cleveland Museum of Art, Tom E. Hinson, Ian Walker, and Lisa Kurzner. Forbidden Games: Surrealist and Modernist Photography : the David Raymond Collection in the Cleveland Museum of Art. 2014.
	page number: 	cat. no. 156, p. 192
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