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Hoover Dam Project: General View, Lower Portals (a.k.a. Four Diversion Tunnels and Two Bridges) by William Woollett

Hoover Dam Project: General View, Lower Portals (a.k.a. Four Diversion Tunnels and Two Bridges) by William Woollett

Hoover Dam Project: General View, Lower Portals (a.k.a. Four Diversion Tunnels and Two Bridges)

William Woollett

Title

Hoover Dam Project: General View, Lower Portals (a.k.a. Four Diversion Tunnels and Two Bridges)

 
Artist

William Woollett

  1901 - 1988 (biography)
Year
1932  
Technique
etching 
Image Size
5 15/16 x 7 15/16" platemark 
Signature
pencil, lower right 
Edition Size
4 of 75  
Annotations
label in lower left margin; editioned in pencil 
Reference
Figure 42 in "Hoover Dam ... 1931-1933" by W. Woollett, 1986 
Paper
antique-white laid F.J. Head & Co. "Hand Made" 
State
published 
Publisher
artist 
Inventory ID
16350 
Price
SOLD
Description
Trained as an architect, Woollett documented the building of the Hoover Dam in a series of etchings and lithographs and a book. This etching has a label that reads: "February, 1932 - General View Lower Portals. View looking up-river."