Matthew Blum

Galleries

The Blum Museum of Art & Machinery

A continually expanding institution of images, objects, circuits, and questionable ideas.

Guided tour Five-Minute Tour

Stop 2 of 5 · Lehigh Valley Wing

Bethlehem Steel Blower House, 2020

Palladium, cyanotype and pigment, 8x10, 2020. Exhibited in Nature and Machine (2022), bay 04A; and in Armature for Aperture (2024).

Room 06

Lehigh Valley Wing

Allentown, Bethlehem, Martin Tower and the rest of the Valley.

  1. Bethlehem Steel. Blue-toned print of the Bethlehem Steel blast furnaces rising behind a long, low shed and overgrown grass.
  2. Bethlehem Steel Blower House, 2020. Palladium, cyanotype and pigment. 8x10. Print with brushed dark edges of a long industrial hall lined with large engines and flywheels, tinted pink and gray.
  3. Martin Tower. Black-and-white view looking straight up a tall office tower, its bands of windows converging toward a patch of sky.
  4. Bethlehem Steel Lithophane. Lithophane. A lithophane made of square tiles that together show the Bethlehem Steel blast furnaces, lit from behind.
  5. Albertus L. Meyers Bridge. Soft-colored photograph of a long concrete arch bridge over a wooded valley, with factory buildings and hills beyond.