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On the Job: Occupations in Print
On the Job: Occupations in Print
Rembrandt, Albert Decaris, Raphael Soyer, Ture Bengtz, Otto Bacher, Louis Lozowick, Seymour Fogel, Irwin D. Hoffman, Bernard Brussel-Smith, James Abbott McNeill Whistler
On the Job presents prints featuring men and women at work, pulled from Childs Gallery’s extensive inventory of etchings, engravings, lithographs, and more. Through these printed media, the exhibition explores various occupations such as construction workers, shopkeepers, barbers, farmers, and vintners, in works dating from the 17th century to today. In charting over 400 years of occupations, On the Job documents a changing workforce, from agrarian pursuits to industrial jobs to women entering the labor pool.
Image Credit:
James Abbott McNeill Whistler, The Fish Shop, Busy Chelsea, 1886
The Fish Shop, Busy Chelsea
James Abbott McNeill Whistler, American (1834-1903)
1886
5 3/8 x 8 1/2 inches
Etching and drypoint
Glasgow 267 i/II; Kennedy 264 i/II. Signed in graphite with the artist's butterfly signature on tab. With the artist's butterfly signature in the plate, top left. Printed on laid paper. Trimmed to or just within the platemark. A fine impression with tone, in fine condition.
$16,000
Raphael Soyer, American (1899-1987)
Waittresses
1954
11 1/2 x 9 1/2 inches
Lithograph
Cole 71. From an edition of 250. Signed on the stone lower left: "Raphael Soyer". Signed in pencil lower right margin: "Raphael Soyer". Published by Associated American Artists, New York. A fine impression in fine condition, aside from adhesive reminants verso. Sheet measures 16 3/8 x 12 1/2 inches. From the Joseph and Marjorie Relkin Collection.
$1,500
Harvest
Ture Bengtz, Finnish-American (1907-1973)
c.1950
13 x 9 inches
Lithograph
Number 24 in an edition of 30. Numbered in pencil lower left margin: "24/30". From the estate of the artist. A fine impression in fine condition. Sheet measures 16 x 11 inches. Published: The Lithographs of Ture Bengtz, The Art Complex Museum, Duxbury, MA, 1978, p.121.
$525
Otto Bacher, American (1856-1909)
Bead Stringers, Perleria, Venice
12 3/4 x 9 inches
Etching
Edition of 21. Plate number 5 from Etchings of Venice. Signed in pencil lower left margin: "Otto H. Bacher". Signed and inscribed in the plate lower right: "Otto H. Bacher / Venice". A fine impression in fine condition, aside from previous restoration in the top margin. Sheet measures 14 1/2 x 10 inches.
$2,900
Jan Uytenbogaert, The Goldweigher
Rembrandt Harmensz van Rijn, Dutch (1606-1669)
1639
9 3/4 x 8 inches
Etching and drypoint
Bartsch 281, Hind 167 iii/III, Nowell-Usticke 281, iii/III. A fine impression, with burr, as retouched by Baillie in 1792. On medium Japan paper, in fine condition aside from slight discoloration in the (3/8 inch) margins and verso. With an unidentified collectors stamp, verso. Hind notes: "Early in 1639 Uytenbogaert offered his offices as intermediary in receiving money due to Rembrandt for pictures from Prince Frederick Henry. Dr. de Groot suggests that the etching may have been done in recognition of the service (Urkunden, 67)."
$36,000
Albert Decaris, French (1901-1988)
Le Pressoir I
c.1935
29 1/2 x 33 inches
Engraving
Boussard-Decaris op. 1058 (p. 147). Number 10 in an edition of 100. Signed and inscribed in pencil by artist lower right: "Decaris 10/100"; titled in pencil bottom left: "Le Pressoir". A fine impression in fine condition aside from minor marginal tearing, not affecting image.
$5,500
[We Demand Our Jobs]
Seymour Fogel, American (1911-1984)
1933
16 x 20 1/4 inches
Ink and wash on paper
Signed and dated in pencil lower left: "Fogel 1933". In fine condition on stabilized paper. Ex-Collection of John P. Axelrod. Exhibited: Whitney Museum of American Art, "Vida America: Mexican Muralism and Art in the United States, 1920-1950", Feb 14 - May 24, 2020; McNay Art Museum, San Antonio, TX, June 11 - Sept. 2020.
$9,500
Louis Lozowick, American (1892-1973)
Above the City
1932
17 x 7 3/4 inches
Lithograph
Flint 88. Number 73 in a posthumous edition of 200 printed in 1982. Signed in pencil lower right by the artist's widow: "Louis Lozowick (AL)"; numbered in pencil lower left: "73/200". Monogrammed on stone lower left: "LL". A fine impression in fine condition with sheet measuring 21 5/8 x 11 7/8 inches.
$1,500
Barber Shop
Irwin D. Hoffman, American (1901-1989)
1936
8 x 10 3/4 inches
Etching
Signed in pencil lower right: "Irwin D. Hoffman"; titled in pencil lower left: "Barber Shop". A fine impression in fine condition aside from very slight matburn, with at least three-quarter inch margins. Published by AAA in 1936; edition of 94. Exhibited in the AAA show, "Miners and Reapers," December 11-23, 1939.
$650
Bernard Brussel-Smith, American (1914-1989)
Hammer Man
1945-46
3 5/8 x 2 1/2 inches
Wood engraving
R.org BBS-72. Proof. From the "Sing of America" series. Signed in pencil lower right: "B. Brussel-Smith"; titled in pencil lower left: "Hammer Man". From the estate of the artist. A fine impression in fine condition with full margins. Sheet size: 11 1/2 x 9 5/8 inches. Published: Tom Scott. "Sing of America." Thomas Y. Crowell Company, 1947. p.1.
$800
