Public collection via the Art Institute of Chicago
AT-00000201Slovak Steel Worker in the Pittsburgh Region Relaxes after Supper
Inscriptions
Unmarked recto; stamped and inscribed verso, across upper half, in blue ink and graphite: "LEWIS W. HINE / INTERPRETIVE PHOTOGRAPHY / HASTINGS-ON-HUDSON, NEW YORK [stamped in blue ink] / Slovak Steel-worker / in the Pittsburgh region / relaxes after supper / 1909 / (Also in "Recreation") [inscribed in graphite]"; inscribed verso, lower right, in graphite: "219 / 13 [erased]"
Exhibition history
Art Institute of Chicago, "The Portrait Photograph," January 1-March 2, 1975. Art Institute of Chicago, "The Subject is Music: Photographs from the Permanent Collection," September 28–December 1, 1996. (Sylvia Wolf) Art Institute of Chicago, “Parcours,” April 21–September 9, 2012. (Matthew S. Witkovsky) Art Institute of Chicago, "The Photographer's Curator: Hugh Edwards at the Art Institute of Chicago, 1959-1970," May 24-October 29, 2017. (Elizabeth Siegel)
Data retrieved from the Art Institute of Chicago on October 7, 2026. The museum may have updated its record since.
Quick Overview
- Artist
- Lewis Wickes Hine / American, 1874–1940
- Date
- 1909
- Medium
- Gelatin silver print
- Dimensions
- Image: 17.5 × 12.6 cm (6 15/16 × 5 in.); Paper: 17.7 × 12.6 cm (7 × 5 in.)
- Type
- Photograph
- Classification
- gelatin silver (developing-out-paper) pr
- Place
- United States
- Department
- Photography and Media
- Credit line
- Acquired through exchange with George Eastman House
- Accession no.
- 1959.852
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