Margaret Bourke-White

Overall View of the Industrial Rayon Corp. Factory Painesville, OH
1939

A black and white photograph of an industrial building with a long, low-rise structure and a tall chimney stack against a clear sky. The building features rows of windows and a water tower on the roof. The foreground shows an empty expanse that appears to be a paved area or lot.

A black and white photograph of an industrial building with a long, low-rise structure and a tall chimney stack against a clear sky. The building features rows of windows and a water tower on the roof. The foreground shows an empty expanse that appears to be a paved area or lot.

Not on view

Date
1939

Classification
Photographs

Medium
Gelatin silver print

Dimensions
Sheet: 10 1/16 × 13 1/2in. (25.6 × 34.3 cm) Image: 10 1/16 × 13 1/2in. (25.6 × 34.3 cm)

Accession number
2012.40

Credit line
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; gift of the John R. Eckel, Jr. Foundation

Rights and reproductions
© Estate of Margaret Bourke-White / Licensed by VAGA at Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York, NY

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Exhibitions

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

Apr 28, 2017–June 2, 2019

Margaret Bourke-White
12 works in the collection

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