The Maypole (Empire State Building)

Artist Edward Steichen (American, born Luxembourg, 1879 - 1973)

Date1932

MediumGelatin silver print

DimensionsImage: 13 5/16 × 10 1/2 inches (33.81 × 26.67 cm)
Sheet: 13 7/8 × 10 15/16 inches (35.24 × 27.78 cm)
Mat: 22 × 18 1/2 inches (55.88 × 46.99 cm)

Credit LineGift of Hallmark Cards, Inc.

Object number2005.27.2192

SignedSigned on window mat recto, lower right, in pencil: "STEICHEN"

InscribedOn sheet verso, top, in pencil: "Empire State Building 1932 / V.F. July 1933"

MarkingsOn sheet verso, center, in blue pencil: "B2 / 2M"

On View

Not on view

Collections

Photography

Terms

DescriptionMultiple exposure image of a skyscraper (Empire State Building) from the perspective of someone standing below it.Exhibition History

Exhibition History

20th-Century Photographs from the Hallmark Photographic Collection. Sioux City Art Center, Sioux City, IA, January 10 - February 22, 1981, no cat.

Cityscapes: 20^th Century Urban Images from the Hallmark Photographic Collection. First Street Forum, St. Louis, MO, April 13-May 20, 1984, no cat.

Photographic Abstraction. Utah State University, Logan, UT, Sierra Nevada Museum of Art, Reno, NV, Fine Art Center/Cheekwood, Nashville, TN, Montgomery Museum of Art, AL, January – September 1987, no cat.

Provenance

Purchased from the artist by Hallmark Cards, Inc., Kansas City, MO, 1969;
Given by Hallmark Cards, Inc. to The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO, 2005.

Published References

Edward Steichen, A Life in Photography (Garden City, NY: Doubleday & Company, Inc., 1963), 213 (repro).

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