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Eastside New York / Albert Potter. – Antique Wall Art

Eastside New York / Albert Potter., [between 1931 and 1935] — historic print
Eastside New York / Albert Potter., [between 1931 and 1935]. Historic print from the Work & Industry 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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Pushcart trade and street life on the city's East Side are the subjects here, with peddlers and market crowds packed into the scene. Made in the early 1930s, when the Depression was squeezing many families who worked on the street, the woodcut belongs to the Realist tradition of printmakers who recorded ordinary urban labor. The sheet is signed and titled in pencil and numbered as an edition of ten, and it was later part of the Ben and Beatrice Goldstein Collection and an exhibition on Jewish life in America at the Library of Congress.

Created / published[between 1931 and 1935]
Medium1 print : woodcut ; 20.5 x 25.6 cm. (image), 23.2 x 30.8 cm. (sheet)
Genre1999. Exhibited: "From Haven to Home : A Library of Congress Exhibition Marking 350 Years of Jewish Life in America" at the Library of Congress
NotesSigned and titled in pencil. Edition 1/10. Copyright by the estate of Albert Potter. 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
SubjectsMarkets--New York (State)--New York--1930-1940. Peddlers--New York (State)--New York--1930-1940.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan4,697 × 3,767 px · prints to 16 × 13 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-220154

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