Hoover Dam Project: "Jumbo" Steel Support for Forms....

 

William Woollett

  1901 - 1988 (biography)

1932  

etching 

6 15/16 x 8 15/16" platemark 

pencil, lower right 

4 of 75  

label in lower left margin; editioned in pencil 

 

antique-white laid F.J. Head "Hand Made" 

published 

artist 

16356 

$225.00 

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 "September, 1932 - "Jumbo" Steel Support of wood forms used in placing top section of concrete in tunnels. View looking up river at Portals No. 1 and NO.2."