On the East River – Vintage Print
![On the East River, [ca. 1934] — antique lithograph](https://images.jameslantos.com/img/dc/dc3e1ef6d3d3-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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This rare antique lithograph captures On the East River in remarkable detail. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.
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On the East River
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Inscribed in pencil "To E. Fiene from N. Cikovsky," this lithograph was a personal gift between artists, and its subject is the waterfront rather than the skyline that most New York views favor. The title, *On the East River*, places the scene along the piers and wharves at the city's edge, where men without work gathered in the 1930s as shipping and dock labor dried up during the Depression. Nicolai Cikovsky, a Russian-born painter working in New York during those years, used such scenes of ordinary laborers to show how the economic crisis looked from the street.
| Created / published | [ca. 1934] |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 print : lithograph ; 30.1 x 38.9 cm. (image), 40.3 x 57.8 cm. (sheet) |
| Genre | 1912-1948 |
| Notes | Titled and inscribed to E. Fiene from N. Cikovsky" in pencil. Copyright by Nicolai Cikovsky |
| Subjects | Unemployed--New York (State)--New York--1930-1940. Men--New York (State)--New York--1930-1940. Piers & wharves--New York (State)--New York--1930-1940. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 4,657 × 3,787 px · prints to 16 × 13 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-220129 |
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