Slovak Steel Worker in the Pittsburgh Region Relaxes after Supper

Photography and Media

1909

Lewis Wickes Hine
American, 1874–1940

Status: Currently Off View
Department: Photography and Media

Artist: Lewis Wickes Hine
Title: Slovak Steel Worker in the Pittsburgh Region Relaxes after Supper
Origin: United States
Date: Made 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

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)

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