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Terminal Tower
1928
Margaret Bourke-White
Margaret Bourke-White (American, 1904–1971)
Photography
Terminal Tower, 1928. Margaret Bourke-White (American, 1904–1971). Gelatin silver print; overall: 49.4 x 37.2 cm (19 7/16 x 14 5/8 in.); matted: 76.2 x 61 cm (30 x 24 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Gift of Huntington Bank 2003.361 © Estate of Margaret Bourke-White / Licensed by VAGA at Artists Rights Society (ARS), NY Bourke-White made numerous photographs of the newly completed Terminal Tower, at that time the second tallest building in America. Here she places it at the apex of a visual pyramid, as if ascending from a smoky pit, flanked by the Detroit-Superior Bridge and smokestacks in the Flats. The tower symbolizes Cleveland’s industrial power and meteoric rise from a small settlement to a modern, progressive city. This is the largest known print of Margaret Bourke-White’s iconic photograph of Cleveland.
- Maker/Artist
- Bourke-White, Margaret
- Classification
- Photograph
- Formatted Medium
- gelatin silver print
- Dimensions
- Overall: 49.4 x 37.2 cm (19 7/16 x 14 5/8 in.); Matted: 76.2 x 61 cm (30 x 24 in.)
- Departments
- Photography
- Accession Number
- 2003.361
- Credit Line
- Gift of Huntington Bank
- Exhibitions
- Burchfield to Schreckengost: Cleveland Art of the Jazz Age, Icons of American Photography: A Century of Photographs from the Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, Ohio: The Cleveland Museum of Art; March 28 - July 18, 2004. "Burchfield to Schreckengost: Cleveland Art of the Jazz Age", no exhibition catalogue.<br>The Cleveland Museum of Art (6/24/07 - 9/16/07) and the Frick Art and Historical Center, Pittburgh, PA (10/3/2009 - 1/3/2010); "Icons of American Photography: A Century of Photographs from the Cleveland Museum of Art", no exhibition catalogue.
- Rights Statement
- Copyrighted undefined
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