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Boys on Wharf by Lionel Samson Reiss

Boys on Wharf by Lionel Samson Reiss

Boys on Wharf

Lionel Samson Reiss

Title

Boys on Wharf

 
Artist

Lionel Samson Reiss

  1894 - 1988 (biography)
Year
c. 1925  
Technique
etching in sepia ink 
Image Size
4 x 8 7/8" platemaek 
Signature
pencil, lower right 
Edition Size
84 of 100  
Annotations
pencil titled and editioned 
Reference
 
Paper
buff wove 
State
published 
Publisher
artist 
Inventory ID
21988 
Price
SOLD
Description

Lionel S. Reiss grew up on Manhattan's Lower East Side where the East River provided summer recreation for many youngsters. Reiss spent most of his life in New York. As an artist, he was self taught but he supported himself with it for his whole life.

"Boys on Wharf" is an etching, warmed up by adding brown to the ink. The subject depicts 3 boys in weekend clothes, relaxing in the sun on a wharf, probably the docks on the Lower East Side. Their are no cares, just a moment in time. Reiss leaves the background and the foreground to the observer's imagination.