Slovak Steel Worker in the Pittsburgh Region Relaxes after Supper

1909

Lewis Wickes Hine
American, 1874–1940

Artist: Lewis Wickes Hine
Title: Slovak Steel Worker in the Pittsburgh Region Relaxes after Supper
Origin: United States
Date: 1909
Medium: Gelatin silver print
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]"
Dimensions: 17.5 × 12.6 cm (image); 17.7 × 12.6 cm (paper)
Credit Line: Acquired through exchange with George Eastman House
Reference Number: 1959.852

Chicago, Art Institute of Chicago, “The Portrait Photograph,” January 1-March 2, 1975.
Chicago, Art Institute of Chicago, “The Subject is Music: Photographs from the Permanent Collection,” September 28–December 1, 1996. (Sylvia Wolf)
Chicago, Art Institute of Chicago, “Parcours,” April 21–September 9, 2012. (Matthew S. Witkovsky)
Chicago, 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)

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