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Dusty plowing / Bernard Steffen. – Vintage Wall Art

Dusty plowing / Bernard Steffen., [1943] — antique lithograph
Dusty plowing / Bernard Steffen., [1943]. Antique lithograph from the Barns & Farms collection.

(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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This antique lithograph of Dusty plowing / Bernard Steffen. brings a moment of history to your wall. Sourced directly from the Library of Congress, it represents an authentic piece of documented history.

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Dusty plowing / Bernard Steffen.

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Dusty plowing turns the labor of the field into a cloud of loose soil, and the title names that effect directly. Made in 1943 as a lithograph, the print carries the stamp of the New York City WPA Art Project, one of the Works Progress Administration's federal programs that employed artists during the Depression and supported printmaking. Its focus on plowing reflects a long American interest in rural work, and the dust recalls the Dust Bowl drought and erosion of the 1930s, which had stripped topsoil from many Plains farms. The title and signature are penciled by hand on the sheet.

Created / published[1943]
Medium1 print : lithograph ; 21.8 x 29.6 cm. (image), 29.2 x 40.4 cm. (sheet)
GenreLithographs 1940-1950.
NotesSigned and titled in pencil. Stamped lower left: New York City WPA Art Project. 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 DLC/PP-1999:160.459
SubjectsPlowing--1940-1950. Farming--1940-1950.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan3,226 × 2,434 px · prints to 11 × 8 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-220117

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