The Cleveland Museum of Art
Collection Online as of April 25, 2024
Portrait of a Shade
1953
(American, 1899–1998)
Image: 50.4 x 40.5 cm (19 13/16 x 15 15/16 in.); Paper: 50.4 x 40.5 cm (19 13/16 x 15 15/16 in.)
Gift of George Stephanopoulos 2016.458
© Estate of Ilse Bing
Location: not on view
Description
While a striking study of light and shadow, this work also has an emotional component. Bing’s sense of isolation and alienation in New York can be intuited from this view of a window that reveals nothing of the outside world.- Ilse Bing: Queen of the Leica. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (March 7-October 11, 2020).
- {{cite web|title=Portrait of a Shade|url=false|author=Ilse Bing|year=1953|access-date=25 April 2024|publisher=Cleveland Museum of Art}}
Source URL:
https://www.clevelandart.org/art/2016.458