Object number2018.9
Noon Hour in East Side Factory District, New York
Date1915
Artist
Lewis Wickes Hine
(American, 1874-1940)
CultureAmerican
MediumGelatin silver print, printed ca. 1931
DimensionsImage: 4 3/4 × 6 3/8 in. (12.1 × 16.2 cm)
Sheet: 5 x 7 in. (12.7 x 17.8 cm)
Sheet: 5 x 7 in. (12.7 x 17.8 cm)
Credit LineGift of Anne Hoene Hoy, class of 1963, in honor of Ann Balis Morse, class of 1959, first chair of the Advisory Council for Photography, on its 20th anniversary
On View
Not on viewPeriod20th c
Classification(s)
InscribedInscribed (verso, in pencil): (Hastings-on-Hudson hand stamp and title, date and numeri notations)
BibliographyLombino, Mary-Kay. Shape of Light: Defining Photographs from the Frances Lehman Loeb Art Center. Poughkeepsie, NY: Vassar College, 2019, p. 54 ;
A variant print with a more open cropping (showing a young man at the right) appears as the cover of America and Lewis Hines, intro. Walter Rosenblum, essay Alan Trachtenberg (Aperture, 1977 and paperback, 1947, and as illustration no. 79 inside. This print was reproduced in the Swann catalogue of February 15, 2018, as lot no.67ProvenanceIsador Sy Seidman, principal of the photo agency Seidman Photo Service and friend of Hine's through the Photo League, which they both frequented (without being members); his estate; to Swann Galleries in 2017 iwth some two dozen other Hine prints, auctioned in February and March 2018.Vassar Exhibitions
Exhibition HistoryUnknown, but probably for the Hines retrospective in 1931 at the Yonkers Museum; Shape of Light: Defining Photographs from the Frances Lehman Loeb Art Center, Vassar College, Poughkeepsie, NY, September 20 - December 15, 2019
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Lewis Wickes Hine
1908-1916
Culture: American
Lewis Wickes Hine
c. 1910
Culture: American
