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Linda Rich, View of East Baltimore looking west. Brick row houses and white marble steps symbolize these working neighborhoods. White marble steps represented a note of elegance and a mark of respectability to newly arriving European immigrants. Keeping them clean , 1980, gelatin silver print, sheet: 11 × 14 in. (27.9 × 35.6 cm) image: 9 3⁄8 × 11 7⁄8 in. (23.8 × 30.2 cm), Smithsonian American Art Museum, Gift of the East Baltimore Documentary Photography Project, 2020.68.5
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Artwork Details
- Title
- View of East Baltimore looking west. Brick row houses and white marble steps symbolize these working neighborhoods. White marble steps represented a note of elegance and a mark of respectability to newly arriving European immigrants. Keeping them clean became an art.
- Artist
- Date
- 1980
- Location
- Not on view
- Dimensions
- sheet: 11 × 14 in. (27.9 × 35.6 cm) image: 9 3⁄8 × 11 7⁄8 in. (23.8 × 30.2 cm)
- Markings
- back lower right in pencil: Linda S. Rich back lower left in pencil: View of East Baltimore looking West 1979 back upper left in pencil: 9 3/8 x 11 7/9 back upper right in pencil: mat cut back lower right in pencil: LB77340
- Credit Line
- Gift of the East Baltimore Documentary Photography Project
- Mediums Description
- gelatin silver print
- Classifications
- Keywords
- Cityscape — street
- Cityscape — Maryland — Baltimore
- Architecture Exterior — domestic — house
- Object Number
- 2020.68.5
Exhibitions
July 16, 2021–January 23, 2022
Welcome Home: A Portrait of East Baltimore, 1975-1980 captures a cross-section of East Baltimore residents and businesses in the 1970s, documenting the community’s history and diversity.