[Wastelands] / Joe Jones c37. – Historic Print
![[Wastelands] / Joe Jones c37., c1937. — antique lithograph](https://images.jameslantos.com/img/fe/fe7d6d646370-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 [Wastelands] / Joe Jones c37. in remarkable detail. Sourced directly from the Library of Congress, it represents an authentic piece of documented history.
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[Wastelands] / Joe Jones c37.
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Joe Jones's *Wastelands* turns to the abandoned farmland of the Depression years, showing rusting agricultural machinery left standing in ground that no longer yields a crop. Made around 1937, the lithograph belongs to a period when drought and dust storms on the Great Plains drove many families off their land, and artists of the decade often used rural decline to comment on economic hardship. Jones signed the image directly on the stone, and the print was distributed through the American Artists Group, which sold affordable prints to bring socially engaged art to a wide audience. Its bleak, empty landscape is worth studying for how it makes equipment itself stand in for the people who have gone.
| Created / published | c1937. |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 print : lithograph ; 25.2 x 32 cm. (image), 31.7 x 45.6 cm. (sheet) |
| Genre | Lithographs 1930-1940. |
| Notes | Title transcribed from mount. Signed on stone. Distributed by the American Artists Group. Copyright by Grace Adams Jones. 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. Paper watermarked: FRANCE. Unprocessed in DLC/PP-1999:160.16 |
| Subjects | Abandoned farms--1930-1940. Agricultural machinery & implements--1930-1940. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 4,702 × 3,758 px · prints to 16 × 13 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-220161 |
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