The Cleveland Museum of Art
Collection Online as of April 19, 2024
Tug and New York Skyline
1922
(American, 1899–1986)
Image: 4.8 x 9.8 cm (1 7/8 x 3 7/8 in.); Matted: 35.6 x 45.7 cm (14 x 18 in.)
John L. Severance Fund 1985.46
© Estate of Ralph Steiner
Location: not on view
Description
Cleveland-born Ralph Steiner began photographing in his teens, and for many years alternated between his personal photographic work and earning a living doing mostly advertising photography. His work from the 1920s and 1930s, like that of Paul Strand and Walker Evans in that period, used the commonplace objects of urban society—billboards, details of automobiles, and skyscrapers—in semiabstract compositions. This picturesque vista of the New York skyline is an early work, taken while Steiner was a student at the Clarence H. White School of Photography in New York. The beautifully atmospheric composition is distinguished by its bold, graphic quality with the tugboat's smoke adding energy and movement.- Turner, Evan H. "The Year in Review for 1985." The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art 73, no. 2 (1986): 26-71. p. 66, no. 114 25159930Cleveland Museum of Art, Tom E Hinson. Catalogue of Photography. Cleveland, OH: Cleveland Museum of Art, 1996. Reproduced: P. 330
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