Margaret Bourke-White
For the Iron Mine Foundations: Magnet Mountain

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Artist Margaret Bourke-White (American, 1904–1971)American, 1904–1971

CultureAmerican

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For the Iron Mine Foundations: Magnet Mountain
from Margaret Bourke-White's Photographs of the USSR

Date1930–1932, printed 1934

Place depictedMagnitnaya, Russia

MediumPhotogravure

DimensionsImage: 9 1/8 × 13 in. (23.2 × 33 cm)
Sheet: 14 1/16 × 20 in. (35.7 × 50.8 cm)

Credit LineGift of Mike and Mickey Marvins

Object number2013.729.24

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Photography

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Marvins Family Collections

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ProvenanceLydia Winston Malbin, d. 1989, New York; [Sotheby's New York, April 26, 1990, lot 290]; purchased by Michael and Michele Marvins, Houston; given to MFAH, 2013.
Inscriptions, Signatures and Marks

verso of mat upper left in pencil: # 11

verso of mat upper left printed label: Lydia Winston Malbin / 483 Aspin Road / Birmingham, Mich. 48009
printed on margin below image: FOR THE IRON MINE FOUNDATIONS: MAGNET MOUNTAIN

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