The Cleveland Museum of Art
Collection Online as of April 25, 2024
Untitled (40038)
1959
(American, b. 1933)
Paper: 35.6 x 27.9 cm (14 x 11 in.)
Gift of an anonymous donor 2018.738
© Bruce Davidson/Magnum Photos
Location: not on view
Did You Know?
Bruce Davidson’s series Brooklyn Gang was inspired by a newspaper story about a violent rumble involving a teenage gang, the Jokers.Description
Petey, a Jokers member who looks out the second-story window here, was injured in that fight. Petey's best friend, fellow Jokers member Bob Powers, walks by the house. Housing in the gang's neighborhood, the then-impoverished Park Slope, Brooklyn, was overcrowded and rundown. Powers lived with his seven siblings and alcoholic parents in a three-bedroom apartment that had a coal-powered cookstove and no hot water or central heating.- Bruce Davidson: Brooklyn Gang. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (October 25, 2020-June 13, 2021).
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