The Cleveland Museum of Art
Collection Online as of December 14, 2025
Untitled, Uptown, Chicago
1965, printed later
(American, b. 1942)
Image: 27.9 x 35.6 cm (11 x 14 in.)
Location: Not on view
Did You Know?
After World War II, there was a migration of tens of thousands of white Appalachians to midwestern cities in search of employment.Description
Uptown, a tough, rundown neighborhood, was the center of Appalachian settlement in Chicago. Its inhabitants, characterized in the press of the time as lazy “hillbillys,” faced discrimination and high unemployment. Lyon photographed the inhabitants of Clifton Street there. “The pictures,” he wrote, “do not ask you to ‘help’ these people, but something much more difficult; to be briefly and intensely aware of their existence, an existence as real and significant as your own.”- {{cite web|title=Untitled, Uptown, Chicago|url=false|author=Danny Lyon|year=1965, printed later|access-date=14 December 2025|publisher=Cleveland Museum of Art}}
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https://www.clevelandart.org/art/2023.79