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Mahlon BlaineForging Ahead1955
1955
$5,500
About
This progress-through-industry themed gouache painting by Mahlon Blaine is signed and dated 1955. The image dramatizes the industrial era with a shirtless industrial worker forging steel in a machine age apocalyptic scene that blends a mid-century modernist sensibility with WPA-era influences.
Signed & dated LR. Sight Size 17" X 23" Framed 29" X 34 1/2"
Details
- CreatorMahlon Blaine (1894 - 1969, American)
- Creation Year1955
- DimensionsHeight: 34.5 in. (87.63 cm)Width: 29 in. (73.66 cm)Depth: 1 in. (2.54 cm)
- Medium
- Movement & Style
- Period
- ConditionThere is one spot of finish wear to the frame.
- Gallery LocationMinneapolis, MN
- Reference Number1stDibs: LU1222345132
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