
Public collection via the Art Institute of Chicago
AT-00006916Climbing up the Beams on the Empire State-100 Stories Up
Inscriptions
Signed recto, on image, lower right, in white: "HINE"; verso unchecked
Exhibition history
Washington D.C., National Gallery of Art, “On the Art of Fixing a Shadow: One Hundred and Fifty Years of Photography,” May 7–July 30, 1989; traveled to The Art Institute of Chicago, September 16–November 26, 1989; Los Angeles County Museum of Art, December 21, 1989–February 25, 1990. Art Institute of Chicago, "Industrial Effects: Twentieth Century Photographs from the Permanent Collection," July 24-October 17, 1993. Art Institute of Chicago, "After the Crash: Picturing the United States 1930-1943," October 21, 2000–January 28, 2001. (Mark Pascal and Kristin Nagel Merrill)(Gallery 1) Art Institute of Chicago, "Photographs by the Score: Personal visions twenty-some years apart," October 7, 2006–January 14, 2007. (David Travis) Art Institute of Chicago, "Photography on Display: Modern Treasures," May 9–September 13, 2009. Art Institute of Chicago, "A Field Guide to Photography and Media," Nov. 10, 2022–Apr. 10, 2023.
Publications
Greenough, Sarah, Joel Snyder, David Travis and Colin Westerbeck. 1989. “On the Art of Fixing a Shadow: One Hundred and Fifty Years of Photography.” Exh. cat. National Gallery of Art/The Art Institute of Chicago. p. 322, cat. 272. Wood, James N. 2000. "Treasures from The Art Institute of Chicago." Hudson Hills Press, Inc. p. 270. Matthew S. Witkovsky et al., "The Art Institute of Chicago Field Guide to Photography and Media," eds. Antawan I. Byrd, Elizabeth Siegel, and Carl Fuldner, pl. 198, p. 214 (Chicago: Art Institute of Chicago, 2023).
Data retrieved from the Art Institute of Chicago on October 8, 2026. The museum may have updated its record since.
Quick Overview
- Artist
- Lewis Wickes Hine / American, 1874–1940
- Date
- 1931
- Medium
- Gelatin silver print
- Dimensions
- Image/paper: 49.1 × 39.7 cm (19 3/8 × 15 11/16 in.)
- Type
- Photograph
- Classification
- gelatin silver (developing-out-paper) pr
- Place
- United States
- Department
- Photography and Media
- Credit line
- The Mary and Leigh Block Endowment Fund
- Accession no.
- 1987.222
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