The Cleveland Museum of Art
Collection Online as of December 13, 2025
Ham and Eggs
1929 (printed 1945)
(American, 1899–1986)
Paper: 20.4 x 25.4 cm (8 1/16 x 10 in.); Matted: 50.8 x 40.6 cm (20 x 16 in.)
Gift of Therese and Murray Weiss 2012.75
© Estate of Ralph Steiner
Location: Not on view
Description
Like many of the significant photographers of the 1930s, Steiner studied at the Clarence White School of Photography in New York in the 1920s. Other alumni in this exhibition include Paul Outerbridge, Dorothea Lange, Doris Ulmann, and Margaret Bourke-White. The school spread the doctrine of modernist photography, and was the main conduit for its introduction into American advertising. Guest lecturers included Alfred Stieglitz, Edward Steichen, and Paul Strand. These avant-garde visual strategies found their way, through pupils like Steiner, into American homes via the pages of popular magazines such as Ladies’ Home Journal, Fortune, and Life.- Artist; Murray Weiss; Cleveland Museum of Art
- Tannenbaum, Barbara. "Ham and Eggs: Arty breakfast from Ralph's diner.” Cleveland Art: Cleveland Museum of Art Members Magazine 57, no. 6 (November/December 2017): 12. Reproduced and Mentioned: p. 12 archive.org
- From Riches to Rags: American Photography in the Depression. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (August 13-December 31, 2017).
- {{cite web|title=Ham and Eggs |url=false|author=Ralph Steiner|year=1929 (printed 1945)|access-date=13 December 2025|publisher=Cleveland Museum of Art}}
Source URL:
https://www.clevelandart.org/art/2012.75