Immigrant Mother And Child

Photography and Media

1905

Lewis Wickes Hine
American, 1874–1940

Status: Currently Off View
Department: Photography and Media

Artist: Lewis Wickes Hine
Title: Immigrant Mother And Child
Place: United States (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 1905
Medium: Gelatin silver print
Inscriptions: Unmarked recto; inscribed verso, upper center, in graphite: "2 [encircled]"
Dimensions: Image: 17 × 12 cm (6 3/4 × 4 3/4 in.); Paper: 17.8 × 12.7 cm (7 1/16 × 5 in.)
Credit Line: Gift of David Vestal
Reference Number: 1965.323
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Oehler, Sarah Kelly. 2013. “They Seek a City: Chicago and the Art of Migration, 1910–1950.” Exh. cat. Art Institute of Chicago/Yale University Press. p. 22, fig. 11.

Art Institute of Chicago, “Keepers of the Flame: Photographs by Lewis Hine and Walter Rosenblum,” January 25, 1992-April 12, 1992.
Art Institute of Chicago, “They Seek a City: Chicago and the Art of Migration, 1910–1950,” March 3–June 2, 2013. (Sarah Kelly Oehler)

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