In the South Pacific / Hans Kleiber. – Antique Print
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(Originally scanned by the Library of Congress. Each image is professionally and digitally cleaned of artifacts such as color bars and extra borders prior to printing.)
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Step back in time with In the South Pacific / Hans Kleiber., a historic print rich in period detail. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.
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In the South Pacific / Hans Kleiber.
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Unlike many wartime prints of planes in flight, this etching and drypoint focuses on the danger of flying over the South Pacific, where aircraft accidents were a grim part of daily operations. Hans Kleiber made the print around 1942 or 1943, when American fighter squadrons were fighting across the vast ocean theater. The work belongs to a larger wave of American printmaking from the early 1940s, when artists turned their skills to the war effort. Its signature in pencil and its inclusion in the 1983 Library of Congress catalog *Artists for Victory* place it among the notable works of that movement.
| Created / published | [1942 or 1943] |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 print : etching and drypoint. |
| Genre | Intaglio prints 1940-1950. |
| Notes | Signed in pencil. Artists for victory : An exhibition catalog / Ellen G. Landau. Washington, [D.C.], Library of Congress, 1983, fig. 18. |
| Subjects | World War, 1939-1945--Air operations--South Pacific Ocean. Fighter planes--South Pacific Ocean--1940-1950. Aircraft accidents--South Pacific Ocean--1940-1950. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 1,536 × 848 px · prints to 5 × 3 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-159515 |
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