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Blanche GrambsBlanche Grambs, Unemployed1935
1935
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Blanche Grambs, known to friends as 'Grambs' (1916-2010) was born in China. She came to New York as a very young woman to study at the Art Students League in 1934. With Harry Sternberg's class she traveled to the Pennsylvania Coal Mines to draw and visit with mining families -- trips that made a strong impact on her and her artist friends. The conditions of American laborers and unemployed workers in New York were a major source of the material in this period. She was on the NYC-WPA and was one of the infamous '219' artists arrested in the strike of December 1, 1936. Later she developed a career in book illustration. This print, Unemployed, is signed, titled, and dated, in pencil.
Unemployed (New York City) is a strong example of her efforts to record the world as she found it in New York in the depth of the Depression. She also made a lithograph with the same title although the composition is different.
The dimensions refer to the size of the image. The work is signed and titled in pencil. Really I would consider this a work in the Urban-Realist tradition that grew out of the Ashcan School.
- Creator:Blanche Grambs (1916 - 2010)
- Creation Year:1935
- Dimensions:Height: 6 in (15.24 cm)Width: 5 in (12.7 cm)
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- Condition:Good condition. Uneven margin at right.
- Gallery Location:New York, NY
- Reference Number:1stDibs: LU141027901402
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