The Cleveland Museum of Art

Collection Online as of July 18, 2026

A vertically oriented, black-and-white photograph portrait depicts Margo Bain Tanner, a woman with a light skin tone, from the chest up in a biplane cockpit. Facing our right, she wears a white flight cap and collared shirt, her lips curved in a slight smile. A dark curl of hair rests against her forehead. She is framed by diagonal metal struts and wires beneath an angled wing. Large, billowing white clouds fill the upper right sky.

Flying High: Margo Bain Tanner

1935

Harold Haliday Costain

(American, 1897–1994)
America
gelatin silver print
Image: 35.4 x 27.8 cm (13 15/16 x 10 15/16 in.); Matted: 61 x 50.8 cm (24 x 20 in.)
John L. Severance Fund 1999.26
Location: Not on view
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https://www.clevelandart.org/art/1999.26