I've Been Working on the Railroad by Robert L. Cormack

Ive Been Working on the Railroad by Robert L. Cormack

I've Been Working on the Railroad

Robert L. Cormack

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Title

I've Been Working on the Railroad

 
Artist

Robert L. Cormack

  1935 - PRESENT (biography)
Year
2012  
Technique
9 etchings with softground and aquatint, printed on one sheet 
Image Size
19 1/2 x 15 1/16" total image size 
Signature
pencil, lower right 
Edition Size
proof 
Annotations
pencil titled, dated, and editioned (as proof) 
Reference
 
Paper
heavy cream wove 
State
published 
Publisher
artist 
Inventory ID
RLC121 
Price
$650.00 
Description

Robert Cormack uses nine separate plates and a combination of etching, softground, and aquatint to illustrate a narrative of railroad building and the might of labor. Using a graphically dynamic style that borrows from the early 20th century Machine Age to WPA muralism, Cormack renders figures and trains in equally bold lines and shapes, lending a parallel between the human figures and the machine they help guide through land and city.

Cormack's formal art education took place at the Chouinard Art Institute, Los Angeles, in the late 1950s and early 1960s, at the height of Abstract Expressionism's fruition in the United States. After taking time to raise a family and work as a unionized postal worker, Cormack retired in 1995 and took up art once again, turning his attention to the printmaking medium. He lives and and works in Santa Rosa, CA.

 

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