Farewell / Raphael Soyer. – Antique Wall Art
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(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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Step back in time with Farewell / Raphael Soyer., an antique lithograph rich in period detail. Sourced directly from the Library of Congress, it represents an authentic piece of documented history.
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Farewell / Raphael Soyer.
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Raphael Soyer's lithograph "Farewell" shows a couple parting, a scene repeated in countless American homes and train platforms during the Second World War. Soyer, a painter known for his quiet portraits of ordinary city life in New York, made his images of ordinary people rather than battlefields, and this one captures the private cost of a nation mobilizing for war. The print's subject matter, listed by the Library of Congress under social aspects of the war, reflects how the conflict reached into everyday domestic life. Its signature on the stone and in pencil marks it as a fully authorized impression of the artist's work.
| Created / published | [1943] |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 print : lithograph. |
| Genre | Lithographs 1940-1950. |
| Notes | Signed on stone and in pencil. 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. |
| Subjects | World War, 1939-1945--Social aspects--United States. Farewells--1940-1950. Couples--1940-1950. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 1,170 × 1,481 px · prints to 4 × 5 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-218587 |
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