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

For the Iron Mine Foundations: Magnet Mountain

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

For the Iron Mine Foundations: Magnet Mountain
For the Iron Mine Foundations: Magnet Mountain
CultureAmerican
Titles
  • 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
Not on view

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Department
Photography
Special Collections
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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