Hoover Dam Project: Portal No. 1 Before Flood... by William Woollett
Hoover Dam Project: Portal No. 1 Before Flood...
William Woollett
Title
Hoover Dam Project: Portal No. 1 Before Flood...
Artist
William Woollett
1901 - 1988 (biography)Year
1932
Technique
etching
Image Size
7 7/8 x 9 7/8" platemark
Signature
pencil, lower right
Edition Size
4 of 75
Annotations
label in lower left margin; editioned in pencil
Reference
Figure 18 in "Hoover Dam ... 1931-1933" by W. Woollett, 1986
Paper
antique-white laid F.J. Head & Co.
State
published
Publisher
artist
Inventory ID
16347
Price
SOLD
Description
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: "February, 1932 - Portal No. 1 before Flood, looking down-river" regionalist