Bernarda Bryson Shahn

Miner
1935–1936

A detailed pencil drawing depicting a man in the foreground with a contemplative expression, wearing a short-sleeved shirt and a cap, holding a pickaxe over his shoulder. Behind him is a scene of a shantytown with ramshackle wooden buildings, some on stilts, with a backdrop of utility poles and a hilly landscape. The artwork is signed at the bottom right.
A detailed pencil drawing depicting a man in the foreground with a contemplative expression, wearing a short-sleeved shirt and a cap, holding a pickaxe over his shoulder. Behind him is a scene of a shantytown with ramshackle wooden buildings, some on stilts, with a backdrop of utility poles and a hilly landscape. The artwork is signed at the bottom right.

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Date
1935–1936

Classification
Prints

Medium
Lithograph

Dimensions
Sheet: 11 7/16 × 15 7/8in. (29.1 × 40.3 cm) Image: 9 5/8 × 12 13/16in. (24.5 × 32.5 cm)

Accession number
99.38

Series
from The Vanishing American Frontier book

Edition
Edition possibly 25

Publication
Printed by A. Grant Arnold; published by Resettlement Administration

Credit line
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; purchase, with funds from the Print Committee

Rights and reproductions
© Estate of Bernarda Bryson Shahn / Licensed by VAGA at Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York

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