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[Workers of the world, unite!] / Rockwell Kent. – Historic Print

[Workers of the world, unite!] / Rockwell Kent., [1937] — antique engraving
[Workers of the world, unite!] / Rockwell Kent., [1937]. Antique engraving from the Historic Print Archive 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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Rockwell Kent's wood engraving takes its title from the closing line of the Communist Manifesto, published by Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels in 1848. Kent, better known for his northern landscapes and seafaring books, turned to labor and political themes during the Depression, and this 1937 print is one of an edition of 150 signed in pencil by the artist. A study drawing for the composition also survives, pointing to the care he took in shaping its stark, collective figures.

Created / published[1937]
Medium1 print : wood engraving.
GenreWood engravings 1930-1940.
NotesBurne Jones, no. 111. American College Society of Print Collectors. Study drawing for print: DRWG/US - Kent, no. 21 (A size). Edition of 150. Signed in pencil. Pennell Fund. Published in: Eyes of the nation : a visual history of the United States / Vincent Virga and curators of the Library of Congress ; historical commentary by Alan Brinkley. New York : Knopf, 1997.
SubjectsWorking class--1930-1940.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan1,180 × 1,536 px · prints to 4 × 5 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-138644

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