Harry Sternberg

Dance of the Machine #1

1935

Workers' hands operating machine controls while giant gears trap human figures above an industrial city.
Workers' hands operating machine controls while giant gears trap human figures above an industrial city.

Harry Sternberg, Dance of the Machine #1, 1935. Lithograph, sheet (Irregular): 24 7/8 × 18 11/16 in. (63.2 × 47.5 cm) Image: 21 3/16 × 15 1/4 in. (53.8 × 38.7 cm). Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; purchase, with funds from The Lauder Foundation, Leonard and Evelyn Lauder Fund 96.68.291

Recto

Not on view

Date
1935

Classification
Prints

Medium
Lithograph

Dimensions
Sheet (Irregular): 24 7/8 × 18 11/16 in. (63.2 × 47.5 cm) Image: 21 3/16 × 15 1/4 in. (53.8 × 38.7 cm)

Accession number
96.68.291

Series
Dance of the Machine Series triptych

Edition
Ed. 30

Publication
Printed by Will Barnet

Credit line
Purchase, with funds from The Lauder Foundation, Leonard and Evelyn Lauder Fund

Rights and reproductions
© artist or artist's estate

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