Asheville Art Museum Announces Our Strength Is Our People: The Humanist Photographs of Lewis Hine

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Mon, Aug 2, 2021
11:00 am - 6:00 pm
2021-08-02T11:00:00-04:00
2021-08-02T18:00:00-04:00
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Asheville Art Museum
2 S Pack Square, Asheville, NC 28801, USA
15 per adult; $13 per senior (65+); and $10 per student (child 6–17 or degree-seeking college students with valid ID
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Lewis Hine, Powerhouse Mechanic, 1920–21, gelatin silver print, 10 × 7 ½ inches. Collection of Michael Mattis and Judith Hochberg. Courtesy art2art Circulating Exhibitions, LLC.
Asheville, N.C.Our Strength Is Our People: The Humanist Photographs of Lewis Hine is a moving exhibition of 65 rare vintage or early prints surveying Lewis Hine’s life’s work documenting the travails and triumphs of immigration and labor. It culminates in his magnificent, oversized photographs of the construction of the Empire State Building in 1931. Our Strength Is Our People coincides with the complementary exhibition, Old World/New Soil: Foreign-Born American Artists from the Asheville Art Museum Collection. Both exhibitions will be on view in the Asheville Art Museum’s Appleby Foundation Exhibition Hall May 7 through August 2, 2021.