Artist: Lewis Wickes Hine (1874 - 1940)
Nationality: American
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Media: Photography
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Biography:
After training as a teacher in Chicago and New York, Lewis Wickes Hine developed an interest in documentary photography while researching with students on Ellis Island. He established a studio in upstate New York in 1912 and devoted himself to sociological photography. He was the photographer for the National Child Labor Committee for ten years and was one of the first to use the medium as a documentary tool. He freelanced for the American Red Cross from 1918 and throughout the 1930’s. Hine was appointed the head photographer for the National Research Project of the Works Project Administration in 1936. As government and corporate commissions began to dwindle, Hine encountered professional and financial struggles.

Artworks in Museum Collections: (60)
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Cliché: Eskimo (blue), Lewis Wickes Hine (United States, 1874 - 1940) , 1995, Lithograph on White Coventry Smooth paper
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Lewis Wickes Hine - Carolina Cotton Mill 1908 gelatin silver print Bowdoin College Museum of Art American
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Cotton-Mill Worker, North Carolina
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Lewis Wickes Hine - Spinner in Cotton Mill, North Carolina 1908 gelatin silver print The Art Institute of Chicago
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Artist: Lewis Hine Title: 11 Year Old Spinner in a Cotton Mill, North Carolina Date:
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Self-Portrait with Newsboy
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Newsies at Skeeter Branch, St. Louis, Missouri, 11:00 A.M., May 9, 1910, 1910 Lewis Hine
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Artist: Lewis W. Hine Title: Boy at Planing Machine, Peru, Indiana Date: 1908 Medium: gelatin
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Artist: Lewis Hine Title: Untitled Date: 1912 Medium: gelatin silver print Dimensions: H.4-5/8 x W.6-9/16
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Artist: Lewis Hine Title: Untitled Date: 1908 Medium: gelatin silver print Dimensions: H.4-5/8 x W.6-11/16
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Artist: Lewis Hine Title: Untitled Date: 1908 Medium: gelatin silver print Dimensions: H.4-3/8 x W.6-9/16
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Artist: Lewis Hine Title: Untitled Date: 1913 Medium: gelatin silver print Dimensions: H.4-7/16 x W.6-3/8
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Artist: Lewis Hine Title: Untitled Date: 1910 Medium: gelatin silver print Dimensions: H.4-11/16 x W.3-11/16
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Artist: Lewis Hine Title: Untitled Date: 1908 Medium: gelatin silver print Dimensions: H.6-5/8 x W.4-5/8
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Artist: Lewis Hine Title: Untitled Date: 1913 Medium: gelatin silver print Dimensions: H.4-7/16 x W.6-7/16
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Artist: Lewis Hine Title: Untitled Date: 1908 Medium: gelatin silver print Dimensions: H.4-11/16 x W.6-9/16
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Artist: Lewis Hine Title: Untitled Date: 1913 Medium: gelatin silver print Dimensions: H.4-5/8 x W.6-5/8
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Artist: Lewis Hine Title: General Utility Boy at Butcher Lumber Company, Orange, Texas Date: 1913
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Artist: Lewis Hine Title: Three Riveters, Empire State Building Date: about 1931 Medium: gelatin silver
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Lewis Wickes Hine - "Radishes! Penny a Bunch!" Sixth Street Market, Cincinnati. 10:00 p.m. Saturday. Boys and Girls Sell All Day, and Till 11:00 p.m. 1908 gelatin silver print Cincinnati Art Museum American
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Lewis Hickes Hine - Delware Boy, 8 Years Old 1910 gelatin silver print The Maier Museum of Art American
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Lewis Hickes Hine - Making Artificial Roses n.d. gelatin silver print The Maier Museum of Art American
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Lewis Hickes Hine - Picking up Potatoes on a Long Island Farm 1925 gelatin silver print The Maier Museum of Art American
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Woman on a Couch Attributed to Louis Jean François Lagrenée (French, 1725-1805)Oil on canvas; 21
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Gilbert Stuart - Eleanor Parke Custis Lewis (Mrs. Lawrence Lewis) 1804 oil on canvas National Gallery of Art American
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Maurice Quentin de La Tour, French, 1704-1788 Portrait of a Woman in a Rose-Colored Gown
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Attributed to Joseph Boze, French, 1744-1826 Portrait of Two Boys (The Autichamp Brothers?) Oil on
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Attributed to Jean Frederic Schall, French, 1752-1825 La Sultana Valida Oil on copper 17.8 x
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Made at Sèvres Factory, French, 1756–present Painted by Jean-Louis Morin, French, working 1754-1787 Cup and
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Meissen Factory, German Cup and saucer about 1730-35 Hard-paste porcelain 7.7 x 7.5 x 9.2
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Unidentified artist, French, second half 17th century Portrait of a Woman Wearing a Pearl Necklace
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Joseph Siffred Duplessis, French, 1752-1802 Jospeh-Marie Vien with Palette (study for a painting in the
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Unidentified artist, French, 18th century Head of a Young Woman Oil on canvas 41.9 x
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Made at Meissen Factory, German Cup and saucer about 1730-40 Hard-paste porcelain 5 x 10.7
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Attributed to Claude-Jean-Baptiste Hoin, French, 1750-1817 Presumed Portrait of Mademoiselle Rosalie Duthé Pastel on paper
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Unidentified artist, French, 2nd quarter 18th century Head of a Young Woman (Madame de Pompadour)
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Francois Hubert Drouais, French, 1727-1775 Portrait of a Woman in Turkish Costume (said to be
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Made at Sèvres Factory, French, 1756–present Cup and saucer Cup and saucer (one of a
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Hubert Robert, French, 1733-1808 L"Escalier des Lavandieres (Stairway of the Washerwoman) 1796 Oil on paper
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Made at Meissen Factory, German Sugar box 1723-24 Hard-paste porcelain 7.9 x 11.4 x 8.8
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Follower of Nicolas Bernard Lépicié, French, 1735-1784 Servant Girl Plucking a Chicken Oil on canvas
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Jean-Honoré Fragonard, French, 1732-1806 Mother and Child Oil on canvas 46.35 x 37.46 cm (18
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Worcester factory, England Teapot England, about 1770 Soft-paste porcelain 15.7 x 21.4 cm (6 3/16
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Jean Baptiste Perronneau, French, 1715-1783 Portrait of a Man (formerly identified as Francis Hastings, Earl
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Unidentified artist, French, 3rd quarter 18th century Portrait of a Woman (said to be Madame
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Jean Martial Frédou, French, 1711-1795 Portrait of a Man (Monsieur de Praroman) Pastel on paper
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Worcester factory, England Teapot stand England, about 1770 Soft-paste porcelain 2 x 14.2 cm (13/16
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John Russell, British, 1745-1806 Portrait of Mrs. Thomas Raikes (?) Pastel on paper 29.8 x
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John Frederick Lewis Cover for Lewis' Lions - Six Studies of Wild Animals Etching 1824
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Jean Baptiste Mallet, French, 1759-1835 La Jolie Visiteuse (The Pretty Visitor) Opaque watercolor 27.5 x
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Jean Baptiste Perronneau, French, 1715-1783 Portrait of a Woman with a Corsage of Blue Flowers
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Daniel Gardner, British, about 1750-1805 Presumed Portrait of Mrs. A. Clarke Pastel on paper 25.7
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Du Paquier factory, Austrian, Vienna Teapot Austria, (Vienna), about 1720-25 Hard-paste porcelain and silver 14.3
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Joseph-Marie Vien, French, 1716-1809 Portrait of a Lady 1757 Pastel on parchment 44.1 x 34.6
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John Frederick Lewis Sleeping Lion, from Lewis' Lions - Six Studies of Wild Animals Etching 1824
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John Frederick Lewis Head Of A Tigress, from Lewis' Lions - Six Studies of Wild Animals Etching 1824
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John Frederick Lewis Head of A Lion, from Lewis' Lions - Six Studies of Wild Animals Etching 1824
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John Frederick Lewis Lion and Lioness, from Lewis' Lions - Six Studies of Wild Animals Etching 1824
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John Frederick Lewis Sleeping Lion, from Lewis' Lions - Six Studies of Wild Animals Etching 1824
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Attributed to Etienne Dumonstier, French, 1520-1603 Portrait of a Woman Oil on panel 36.8 x

Artnews Articles and Exhibition Information: (13)
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Columbus Museum of Art: The Art of Humane Propaganda
This exhibition brings together 44 vintage prints, on loan from the Ohio State University, together with earlier examples by American social documentary photographer Lewis Hine. Hines work, on loan from ...
Detroit Institute of Arts: The Enduring Horizon: American Landscape Photographs from the Collection
Early photographic pioneers William Henry Jackson, Timothy OSullivan and Carleton Watkins chronicle and interest in the exploration of the American West during the 19th century. Also featured are images of urban and suburban ...
New-York Historical Society: From the Classroom to the World: Hine, Ulman, Strand, Arbus and the Ethical Culture Fieldston School
From the Classroom to the World represents the first exhibition to examine the crucial, formative role of the Ethical Culture Fieldston School in the work of some of the United States' most important photographers, whose work helped define the cou...
Institute of Modern Art, Brisbane: Fresh Cut 2001: Work by Annie Hogan, Janice Peacock, Gareth Donnelly, Lucy Griggs, Jose Da Silva, Simone Hine, Amanda Pound, Caroline Southwood, Chris Handran, Georgina Berkman, Jewell MacKenzie
Fresh Cut 2001 provides a snapshot of the continuing enthusiasm there is for contemporary art. For what stands out about this years exhibition is the artists' fascination and delight with looking and discovering different ways of experiencing o...
Jewish Museum: New York: Capital of Photography
New York: Capital of Photography addresses the fact that many of the practitioners of the quintessentially modern art form of street photography were or are Jewish. These photographers showed an affinity for those on the margins of society, ...
Museum of Photographic Arts: LAST CHANCE: Facts Showered with Light
Like the written word, the photograph fixes perfectly but translates poorly, producing images altogether more luminous, more immense, more mesmerizing and quixotic than what we might actually have seen or...
Milwaukee Art Museum: The Last Show of the Century: A History of the 20th Century Through Its Art
Twentieth-century artists have been keenly aware of their social environment, perhaps to a greater degree than artists in any other century. Using a time line as its basis, this exhibition will count off the major historical ev...
City Gallery Wellington: Shane Cotton: Works from the Last Fifteen Years
Shane Cotton, curated by Lara Strongman, Senior Curator at City Gallery, will be presented in three of City Gallery's four exhibition spaces and spans the period 1993 to 2003. The exhibition will include images that have been considered by many...
Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Art: New Land Marks: Public Art, Community, and the Meaning of Place
The exhibition will document sixteen works in process through photographs, plans, drawings, computer renderings, maps, maquettes, and models and will feature proposals developed by the following artists and community organizations: - Lore...
Memphis Brooks Museum: US DESIGN, 1975-2000
Thomas Hine and Rosemarie Haag Bletter examined the cultural and theoretical issues that have shaped American design from 1975 to 2000. Other members, including David G. De Long in architecture, Miller in decorative and industrial design, and ...
Museu d'Art Contemporani de Barcelona: Universal Archive. The Condition of the Document and the Modern Photographic Utopia
Thus the creation of Universal Archive. The Condition of the Document and the Modern Photographic Utopia, an exhibition that brings together nearly 2,000 documents (of which the almost 1,000 vintage photographs and prints are of particular interes...
Corcoran Gallery of Art: Common Ground: Discovering Community in 150 Years of Art Selections from the Collection of Julia J. Norrell
Dedicated to building bridges between cultural understanding and art, Julia "Judy" Norrell has assembled an outstanding collection that addresses the notion of a collective past and the role of memory and activism in finding common ground among di...
Delaware Art Museum: An American Century of Photography: From Dry-plate to Digital, The Hallmark Photographic Collection

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