Steel Workers House, Bethlehem, Pennsylvania

1941

Mary Morris

Associated Names
Mary Morris

Artist, American, 1914 - 2009

The image shows a wintry urban neighborhood street from a porch. In the foreground are a wooden gate and a snow-covered stone bannister. Cars are parked along the snow-laden street lined with bare trees. Telephone poles and utility lines stretch into the distance, where industrial smokestacks release plumes of smoke against a gray, cloud-filled sky. The color palette is monochromatic, emphasizing contrasts between snow, stone, wood, and sky. Snow and brick textures add detail, and the composition leads the eye through the framed view of the street to the distant cityscape.
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On View

West Building Main Floor, Gallery M78

Artwork overview

  • Medium

    gelatin silver print

  • Credit Line

    Alfred H. Moses and Fern M. Schad Fund

  • Dimensions

    image: 20.4 × 19.4 cm (8 1/16 × 7 5/8 in.)
    sheet: 20.32 × 25.4 cm (8 × 10 in.)

  • Accession Number

    2023.117.2

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

PM Newspaper, New York; Culver Pictures; Jay Perino; (Richard Moore Photographs, Oakland, CA), 2010; NGA purchase, 2023.

Associated Names

Inscriptions

on verso, stamped in black ink along right: Pix Slug...[by unknown hand in black crayon: View].... Page Slug....[by unknown hand in black crayon: Labor]...../ Page......... Day....[by unknown hand in black crayon: Tuesday].... / Width.........Depth.........; in unknown hand, center, in green ink: Penn Bethlehem; stamped in black ink: PM PHOTOGRAPH BY / MARY MORRIS; stamped in red ink, bottom right: DAILY / FEB 11 1941; caption from newspaper glued to center: View from a steel workers' home: old, desolate houses / border the plant. To their residents, Bethlehem Steel / is never out of sight.

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