[Red Eye's hall] / M. Wolfe. – Antique Wall Art
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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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[Red Eye's hall] / M. Wolfe. comes to life in this antique lithograph, reproduced from the original with every detail intact. The original is held by the Library of Congress, so what you hang is a true record of its time.
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[Red Eye's hall] / M. Wolfe.
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Titled "Red Eye's Hall," this 1934 lithograph by M. Wolfe depicts a social dance in Nashville, Tennessee, where the record places the scene during the 1930s. The print belongs to a series called *American Negro Life*, and its pencil signature and subject tags mark it as a deliberate study of Black community life in the South during the Depression. Lithography was a practical medium for artists of the period, since it allowed multiple impressions from a single stone and made images of everyday scenes widely available. Viewers today can read the work both as a record of the dance hall's social world and as an example of how 1930s printmakers chose ordinary gatherings as their subject.
| Created / published | [1934] |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 print : lithograph ; 36.8 x 29.1 cm. (image), 47.3 x 39.2 cm. (sheet) |
| Genre | Lithographs 1930-1940. |
| Notes | From series: American Negro life. Signed in pencil. Ben and Beatrice Goldstein Foundation Collection (Library of Congress). Exhibited in: Life of the people: Realist prints and drawings from the Ben and Beatrice Goldstein Collection, 1912-1948, Library of Congress, 1999. Unprocessed in PR 13 CN 1997:015.1468 |
| Subjects | African Americans--Social life--Tennessee--Nashville--1930-1940. African Americans--Dance--1930-1940. Dance--Tennessee--Nashville--1930-1940. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 3,821 × 4,696 px · prints to 13 × 16 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-220116 |
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