[No work] / Blanche Mary Grambs. – Historic Print
![[No work] / Blanche Mary Grambs., [1935] — antique lithograph](https://images.jameslantos.com/img/ae/ae197bc9810c-L.webp)
(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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[No work] / Blanche Mary Grambs. comes to life in this antique lithograph, reproduced from the original with every detail intact. The original is held by the Library of Congress, so what you hang is a true record of its time.
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[No work] / Blanche Mary Grambs.
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The bracketed title "[No work]" was supplied by cataloguers and states the subject plainly: joblessness during the Great Depression. Blanche Mary Grambs made this lithograph in 1935, and Will Barnet printed it at the Art Students League in New York, a school where many American artists of the period studied printmaking. Like much social-realist art of the decade, it treats unemployment as a matter of ordinary people rather than statistics, and the Ben and Beatrice Goldstein collection later grouped it with other images of working life.
| Created / published | [1935] |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 print : lithograph ; 24 x 20.5 cm. (image), 40.5 x 29 cm. (sheet) |
| Genre | Lithographs 1930-1940. |
| Notes | Signed on stone. Printed by Will Barnet at the Art Students League. Copyright by Blanche Mary Grambs. 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. Exhibited: American Treasures of the Library of Congress, 2002. Unprocessed in PR 13 CN 1995:010.1469 |
| Subjects | Unemployed--1930-1940. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 3,811 × 4,681 px · prints to 13 × 16 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-220132 |
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