New Year's Eve

 

Albert Abramovitz

  1879 - 1963 (biography)

c. 1935  

woodengraving 

7 7/8 x 10 5/8" image 

pencil, lower right 

under 25 

 

San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, FA 5507; GSA WPA artwork p. 51; Metropolitan Museum of Art 43.33769 

ivory wove 

published 

NYC WPA 

MIST111 

SOLD

Abraham Abramowitz did a number of prints for the New York WPA-PWAP (Public Works of Art Project) that depicted life on the streets of New York, the bread lines and flop houses and a few images like this - New Yorkers celebrating the New Year, perhaps in Times Square, anticipating a better year and thankful for having survived the past year.

This image was created on the end-grain of a block of wood, using engraving tools to carve the subtle white lines that create the image.