The Cleveland Museum of Art

Collection Online as of April 25, 2024

Boxers over New York

Boxers over New York

early 1920s
(American, 1897–1969)
America, 20th century
gelatin silver printof photomechanical reproductions, collage
Image: 19.4 x 24.4 cm (7 5/8 x 9 5/8 in.); Mounted: 21 x 26.2 cm (8 1/4 x 10 5/16 in.); Paper: 20.3 x 25.2 cm (8 x 9 15/16 in.)
John L. Severance Fund 2007.34
© Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York
Location: not on view

Description

Blumenfeld cut out stock press photographs of the 1910 championship fight between Jim Jeffries and Jack Johnson—who became the first African American world heavyweight champion in 1908—and glued them to an aerial photograph of Manhattan, probably taken as part of the first zeppelin flight from Germany to the United States in 1924. Much of Blumenfeld’s photographic work in the 1920s addressed racial and social injustice.
  • Estate of Paul Citroen, Wassenar
    Egidio Marzona [b.1944], Berlin
    Hendrik Berinson, Berlin
    (Ubu Gallery, New York, NY)
    (Barry Friedman Ltd., New York, NY)
    2007
    David Raymond [b.1979], New York, NY
    The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
  • Cleveland Museum of Art, Tom E. Hinson, Ian Walker, and Lisa Kurzner. Forbidden Games: Surrealist and Modernist Photography : the David Raymond Collection in the Cleveland Museum of Art. 2014. cat. no. 39, p. 73
    Blumenfeld, Erwin, and Helen Adkins. Erwin Blumenfeld: I Was Nothing but a Berliner : Dada Montages 1916-1933. Ostfildern: Hatje Cantz, 2008. p. 216
  • Forbidden Games: Surrealist and Modernist Photography. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (October 19, 2014-January 11, 2015).
  • {{cite web|title=Boxers over New York|url=false|author=Erwin Blumenfeld|year=early 1920s|access-date=25 April 2024|publisher=Cleveland Museum of Art}}

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https://www.clevelandart.org/art/2007.34