Excavation Site, Manhattan

 

Armin Landeck

  1905 - 1984 (biography)

1933 /printed '83 

engraving 

9 7/8 x 6 15/16" platemark 

pencil, lower right; initialed in plate lower left 

100, 90 printed 

Ed 100 Pencil Annotated: Ed 100, dated 1983; dated in plate "33" lower left; blind chop of the printer EP 

Kraeft 138 

antique-white wove 

published 

artist 

TILA112 

$500.00 

Landeck loved Manhattan and used it settings for many of his prints. He produced a few images relating to excavation sites. Despite the few figures overlooking the site, the scene seems isolated and the building uninhabited as there are no other vehicles or people moving about the streets.