Construction (The Riveter)

 

Harry Sternberg

  1904 - 2001 (biography)

1932  

etching and aquatint 

13 3/4 x 10 7/8" platemark; 10-1/8" circular image. 

pencil, lower right 

numbered in red, "2" from an edition of 20 

titled in pencil; inscribed in the plate with the artist's name and the date June 1932 within the circle, beneath the beam. 

Moore 89; Fine Prints of the Year, 1933, plate 94 

antique-white wove vellum 

published 

Weyhe Gallery, NY 

18753 

SOLD

"Construction" is arguably Harry Sternberg's most noted image. It has come to represent Social Realism of the '30's, the Depression, the WPA and the construction that was created and the labor movement that evolved. This etching was published by Weyhe Gallery in New York in an edition of 20. In 1935 after participating in the WPA screenprinting division Sternberg re-created this image as his first color serigraph with the title "Riveter." He was able to publish many more impressions at a cheaper price.