The Steppe: Ukraine
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View on museum website →Medium
photogravure
Dimensions
image: 23.3 × 33 cm (9 3/16 × 13 in.) sheet: 35.56 × 50.8 cm (14 × 20 in.)
Classification
Photograph
Department
CPH
Museum
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Credit
Gift of Funds from Linda Hackett and Russell Munson, and Pepita Milmore Memorial Fund
Accession Number
2023.36.1.21
Art Historical Context
**The Steppe: Ukraine**1930) by Margaret Bourke-White captures vast, windswept grasslands of Ukraine's steppe region in a striking photogravure print. Bourke-White, a trailblazing American photographer and one of the first women to gain access to industrial sites, created this image during her pioneering 1930 trip to the Soviet Union. the era's fervor for modernization under Stalin's Five-Year Plan, she documented both industrial feats and expansive landscapes, blending her signature sharp focus and dramatic composition to evoke the boundless scale of the Eastern European plains. This work ref...
About the Artist
Margaret Bourke-White
Margaret Bourke-White (1904–1971) was one of the most celebrated American photojournalists of the twentieth century, whose fearless pursuit of images in the most demanding circumstances helped define what documentary photography could be. Born in New York City, she initially studied photography while attending Cornell University and later the Clarence H. White School of Photography, where she abso...