New Additions: Prints for an American Museum Part I

Oct 30, 2003–Jan 24, 2004

Black and white etching of passengers in a subway station with an oncoming train, capturing the movement and urban atmosphere.
Black and white etching of passengers in a subway station with an oncoming train, capturing the movement and urban atmosphere.

Ida Abelman, Wonders of our Time, 1937. Lithograph, sheet: 16 1/8 × 23 5/8 in. (41 × 60 cm) Image: 11 9/16 × 15 1/16 in. (29.4 × 38.3 cm). Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; purchase, with funds from the Print Committee 93.80. © Estate of Ida Abelman

New Additions: Prints for an American Museum Part I was curated by David Kiehl.



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