The Cleveland Museum of Art
Collection Online as of April 23, 2024
From my Window at the Shelton, West
1932
(American, 1864–1946)
Image: 23.9 x 18.5 cm (9 7/16 x 7 5/16 in.); Matted: 55.9 x 45.7 cm (22 x 18 in.)
Location: not on view
Description
While the Depression led to the cancellation of many ambitious construction plans, some high-rise building projects continued in the 1930s, including the one Stieglitz saw from his midtown New York apartment in the Shelton Hotel. Built in 1923, the Shelton was one of the first “skyscraper” residential hotels, and briefly the tallest hotel in the world. A photographer and gallerist, Stieglitz was a leading proponent for the recognition of photography as a fine art equal to painting and sculpture.- Cleveland Museum of Art, Tom E Hinson. Catalogue of Photography. Cleveland, OH: Cleveland Museum of Art, 1996.
Published as: New York Reproduced: P. 333 - From Riches to Rags: American Photography in the Depression. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (August 13-December 31, 2017).Icons of American Photography: A Century of Photographs from the Cleveland Museum of Art. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (June 24-September 16, 2007).Legacy of Light: Seven Masters in Depth. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (November 20-February 2, 1996).The Precisionist Aesthetic in American Art. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (January 24-April 9, 1989).San Francisco, Museum of Modern Art, September 9, 1982 - November 7, 1982: "Precisionist Painting and American Photography," also traveled to St. Louis, Baltimore, Des Moines, and CMA through October 9, 1982, cat. 130, p. 238, repr. plate 52.Masters of the Camera: Stieglitz, Steichen, and Their Successors. The American Federation of Arts, New York, NY (organizer) (November 10, 1976-January 10, 1977).New York, The American Federation of Arts, 1976-1977: "Masters of the Camera: Stieglitz, Steichen and Their Successors," cat. p. 19, repr. p. 66.Source Material for Studio Projects. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (June 20-August 27, 1972).Photograph Exhibition. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (July 13-September 19, 1971).What Was the Armory Show?. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (June 27-September 15, 1963).CMA, December 12, 1934 - January 13, 1935, "Exhibition of Photographs," no exhibition catalogue.
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Source URL:
https://www.clevelandart.org/art/1935.56