World's Highest Standard of Living

Photography and Media

1937, printed later

Margaret Bourke-White
American, 1904–1971

Status: Currently Off View
Department: Photography and Media

Artist: Margaret Bourke-White
Title: World's Highest Standard of Living
Place: New York City (Artist's nationality:)
Date Dates are not always precisely known, but the Art Institute strives to present this information as consistently and legibly as possible. Dates may be represented as a range that spans decades, centuries, dynasties, or periods and may include qualifiers such as c. (circa) or BCE.: Made 1937
Medium: Gelatin silver print
Dimensions: Print: 55.6 × 73.5 cm (21 15/16 × 28 15/16 in.); frame: 68 × 85.8 × 6.9 cm (26 13/16 × 33 13/16 × 2 3/4 in.)
Credit Line: Gift of Boardroom, Inc.
Reference Number: 1992.560
Copyright: © Estate of Margaret Bourke-White / Licensed by VAGA at Artists Rights Society (ARS), NY

Westerbeck, Colin. 1994. “Lessons in Life: Photographic Works from the Boardroom Collection.” Exh. cat. Art Institute of Chicago. n.pag.
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. 299, p. 309 (Chicago: Art Institute of Chicago, 2023).

Art Institute of Chicago, “”Lessons in Life”: Photographic Works from the Boardroom Collection,” March 26-June 19, 1994. (Colin Westerbeck)
Art Institute of Chicago, “Crossing the Line: Photography Reconsidered,” January 29–June 4, 2000. (David Travis)
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, “The Concerned Photographer,” March 18–June 11, 2006. (Katherine Bussard, Newell G. Smith, Gregory Harris)
Fort Worth, Texas, Amon Carter Museum, “American Modern: Abbott, Evans, Bourke-White,” October 2, 2010–January 2, 2011; traveled to the Art Institute of Chicago, February 5–May 15, 2011; Colby College Museum of Art, Waterville, Maine, July 9–October 2, 2011.
Art Institute of Chicago, “A Field Guide to Photography and Media,” Nov. 10, 2022–Apr. 10, 2023.

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