Art News (from the portfolio Comrade Gulliver) by Hugo Gellert

Art News (from the portfolio Comrade Gulliver) by Hugo Gellert

Art News (from the portfolio Comrade Gulliver)

Hugo Gellert

Title

Art News (from the portfolio Comrade Gulliver)

 
Artist

Hugo Gellert

  1892 - 1985 (biography)
Year
1935  
Technique
lithograph 
Image Size
14 7/8 x 12 1/2" image 
Signature
pencil, lower left 
Edition Size
not stated 
Annotations
 
Reference
Ryan 43 
Paper
cream wove w/FRANCE watermark 
State
published 
Publisher
 
Inventory ID
10291 
Price
SOLD
Description
His murals created a controversy when they were exhibited at the museum of Modern At in 1931 and 1932. Gellert joined the National Society of Mural Painters, and in 1934 he helped form the Mural Artists Guild of the United Scenic Painters of the AFL-CIO in order to insure that wall paintings for the World's Fair would be contracted through the union. Working in the FAP mural division in 1938, the artist painted a fresco in the Communications Building of the World's Fair.