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Going Into The Mines

1937

Blanche Grambs

Associated Names

Blanche Grambs

Artist, American, 1916 - 2010

Federal Art Project (New York City)

Publisher

The image displays bold, curving shapes and heavy lines forming an abstract composition. These shapes suggest movement towards a large, dark rectangular entrance. The abstract quality allows for various interpretations such as figures or forms entering a tunnel. The pattern of lighter and darker shaded areas resembles the texture of a cave wall or stone path.

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Artwork overview

Medium

etching and aquatint
Credit Line

Reba and Dave Williams Collection, Gift of Reba and Dave Williams
Dimensions

image: 250 x 370 mm
sheet: 326 x 457 mm
Accession Number

2008.115.2218
Catalogue Raisonné

Wechsler 1996, no. 35

Artwork history & notes

Bibliography

1996

Wechsler, James. "The Great Depression and the Prints of Blanche Grambs." Print Quarterly XIII (December 1996): no. 35.

Inscriptions

In pencil: lower right, © 1937 Going into the Mines BM Grambs; stamped in ink: verso, lower right, FEDERAL ART PROJECT NYC WPA

Wikidata ID

Q76550833

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