Jules Kirschenbaum

The City

1953

Rooftop courtyard with workers, staircases, ladders, and industrial vents against a city backdrop.
Rooftop courtyard with workers, staircases, ladders, and industrial vents against a city backdrop.

Jules Kirschenbaum, The City, 1953. Transparent and opaque watercolor, and graphite pencil on paper, sheet: 22 3/8 × 30 1/2 in. (56.8 × 77.5 cm). Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; purchase, with funds from the Neysa McMein Purchase Award 56.23

Recto

Not on view

Date
1953

Classification
Drawings

Medium
Transparent and opaque watercolor, and graphite pencil on paper

Dimensions
Sheet: 22 3/8 × 30 1/2 in. (56.8 × 77.5 cm)

Accession number
56.23

Credit line
Purchase, with funds from the Neysa McMein Purchase Award

Rights and reproductions
© artist or artist's estate

API
artworks/1854



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