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    Museum collections / Art Institute of Chicago
    Climbing up the Beams on the Empire State-100 Stories Up
    Lewis Wickes Hine. Climbing up the Beams on the Empire State-100 Stories Up, 1931. The Art Institute of Chicago. Public domain (CC0).

    Public collection via the Art Institute of Chicago

    AT-00006916

    Climbing up the Beams on the Empire State-100 Stories Up

    by Lewis Wickes Hine

    View at the Art Institute of Chicago

    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).

    Open-access museum data

    This record comes from the open-access collection data that the Art Institute of Chicago publishes for unrestricted use (Creative Commons Zero). Art Trackers shows a selection of the museum's published fields. The Art Institute of Chicago is not an Art Trackers client and has not reviewed or endorsed this page; the museum's own website is the authoritative record.

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    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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