Hurdy gurdy ballet / Glenn O. Coleman. – Historic Print
(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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A window into the past: Hurdy gurdy ballet / Glenn O. Coleman., preserved in this antique lithograph. Sourced directly from the Library of Congress, it represents an authentic piece of documented history.
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Hurdy gurdy ballet / Glenn O. Coleman.
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Children dance in a city street while an organ grinder turns his hurdy-gurdy, a familiar sound in New York neighborhoods during the 1920s. Glenn O. Coleman drew the stone for this lithograph in 1928, and he was then known for portraying crowded urban life with a realist eye. The print is signed on the stone and in pencil and numbered 26 of an edition of 50. Its back bears stamps from the Downtown Gallery, a New York dealer that championed American modern artists, dated 1932 and 1935.
| Created / published | 1928 |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 print : lithograph ; 30.8 x 40.2 cm. (image), 40.3 x 58.1 cm. (sheet) |
| Genre | Lithographs 1920-1930. |
| Notes | Signed on stone. Signed, titled, and dated in pencil. Edition 26/50. Stamped on verso: The Downtown Gallery ; Jun 18 1932 ; Oct 4 1935. Ben and Beatrice Goldstein Foundation Collection (Library of Congress). Exhibited: A Century of Creativity: The MacDowell Colony, 1907-2007, Library of Congress, February to August 2007. Exhibited in: Life of the people: Realist prints and drawings from the Ben and Beatrice Goldstein Collection, 1912-1948, Library of Congress, 1999. Paper watermarked: RIVES. Unprocessed in D 022, no. 3404 |
| Subjects | Children dancing--New York (State)--New York--1920-1930. Organ grinders--New York (State)--New York--1920-1930. City & town life--New York (State)--New York--1920-1930. Streets--New York (State)--New York--1920-1930. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 4,701 × 3,758 px · prints to 16 × 13 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-220159 |
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