Irwin David Hoffman

Mexican Wash Day
1937

This is a detailed black and white etching depicting a group of women engaged in laundry work by a river. One woman kneels in the foreground, scrubbing cloth against a washboard, while another stands in the water, wringing out a garment. In the background, more women perform similar tasks, with lush vegetation partially obscuring the scene. The artwork conveys a sense of communal labor and has a dynamic, almost urgent quality to the strokes that capture the textures of the environment and the movement of the workers. The artist's signature is visible in the lower right corner.

This is a detailed black and white etching depicting a group of women engaged in laundry work by a river. One woman kneels in the foreground, scrubbing cloth against a washboard, while another stands in the water, wringing out a garment. In the background, more women perform similar tasks, with lush vegetation partially obscuring the scene. The artwork conveys a sense of communal labor and has a dynamic, almost urgent quality to the strokes that capture the textures of the environment and the movement of the workers. The artist's signature is visible in the lower right corner.

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Date
1937

Classification
Prints

Medium
Etching

Dimensions
Sheet: 14 × 17 15/16in. (35.5 × 45.6 cm) Plate: 10 7/8 × 13 13/16in. (27.7 × 35.1 cm)

Accession number
2004.784

Edition
Ed. 191

Publication
Printed by Anderson-Lamb; published by Associated American Artists

Credit line
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; gift of the Neifeld-Russak Families

Rights and reproductions
© artist or artist’s estate

API
artworks/20067

Irwin David Hoffman
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