The Negro, The Foreign-Born, and Discrimination (The Trees and the Axe) from Aesop Said So

 

Hugo Gellert

  1892 - 1985 (biography)

1936  

lithograph 

9 x 11 1/2" image 

pencil, lower left 

edition of 33 from a planned edition of 50 

 

Mary Ryan Gallery, Hugo Gellert catalogue 

cream Rives BFK wove paper 

published 

Covici Friede, New York 

16313 

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A Woodman came into a forest to ask the Trees to give him a handle for his Axe. It seemed so modest a request that the pincipal Trees at once agreed to it, and it was settled among them that the plain, homely Ash should furnish what was wanted. No sooner had the Woodman fitted the poor Ash to his Axe, than he began laying about him on all sides, felling the noblest Trees in the wood. The Oak, now seeing the mistake too late, whispered to the Cedar: "The first concession has lost all; if we had not sacrificed our humble neighbor, we might have yet stood for ages ourselves."