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[Miner Joe] / Elizabeth Olds, 1940. – Historic Print

[Miner Joe] / Elizabeth Olds, 1940., 1940 — historic print
[Miner Joe] / Elizabeth Olds, 1940., 1940. 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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[Miner Joe] / Elizabeth Olds, 1940.

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Signed and dated in crayon in the upper right corner, this color silkscreen by Elizabeth Olds shows a single miner named Joe rather than a crowd of workers, which gives the subject a personal presence. Olds, a New York artist who worked with the Federal Art Project in the 1930s, made many portraits of laborers, and silkscreen was a medium the New Deal arts programs promoted because it could produce bright, affordable multiples. The print belongs to the Ben and Beatrice Goldstein Collection at the Library of Congress and was included in a 1999 exhibition of American realist prints.

Created / published1940
Medium1 print : silkscreen, color ; 61 x 46.3 cm. (image), 61 x 48.3 cm. (sheet)
GenrePortrait prints 1940.Screen prints Color 1940.
NotesSigned and dated in crayon on upper right. Copyright by the Estate of Elizabeth Olds. 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 1997:015.3348
SubjectsMiners--1940.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan3,792 × 4,721 px · prints to 13 × 16 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-220157

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