Ilse Bing

Boat with Statue of Liberty, NY
1936

A black and white photograph capturing a silhouette of a steamboat with smoke billowing from its stack on the water, with the Statue of Liberty in the background under a hazy sky.

A black and white photograph capturing a silhouette of a steamboat with smoke billowing from its stack on the water, with the Statue of Liberty in the background under a hazy sky.

Not on view

Date
1936

Classification
Photographs

Medium
Gelatin silver print

Dimensions
Sheet: 15 5/8 × 19 5/8in. (39.7 × 49.8 cm) Image: 14 1/8 × 19 5/8in. (35.9 × 49.8 cm)

Accession number
2001.391

Credit line
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; Bequest of Ilse Bing Wolff

Rights and reproductions
© Wichita State University Foundation

API
artworks/15916

Exhibitions

Where We Are: Selections from the Whitney’s Collection, 1900–1960

Apr 28, 2017–June 2, 2019

Ilse Bing
48 works in the collection

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