Alex Topchevsky

Exodus from Germany

c. 1937–1938

Group of people carrying large bundles and walking hurriedly away, suggesting forced exodus.
Group of people carrying large bundles and walking hurriedly away, suggesting forced exodus.

Alex Topchevsky, Exodus from Germany, c. 1937–1938. Linoleum cut on paper mounted on paper, sheet: 10 3/4 × 8 1/2 in. (27.3 × 21.6 cm) Image: 10 × 8 in. (25.4 × 20.3 cm) Mount: 15 × 12 in. (38.1 × 30.5 cm). Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; purchase, with funds from the Print Committee 2001.12.11

Recto

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Date
c. 1937–1938

Classification
Prints

Medium
Linoleum cut on paper mounted on paper

Dimensions
Sheet: 10 3/4 × 8 1/2 in. (27.3 × 21.6 cm) Image: 10 × 8 in. (25.4 × 20.3 cm) Mount: 15 × 12 in. (38.1 × 30.5 cm)

Accession number
2001.12.11

Edition
Ed. 200

Publication
Printed by Precision Press; published by L.M. Stein

Credit line
Purchase, with funds from the Print Committee

Rights and reproductions
© artist or artist's estate

API
artworks/38324

Part of a series:
Biro-Bidjan Portfolio
15 works

Several people wait on a Bronx subway platform, with a man sitting in the foreground holding a cane.
Group of people carrying large bundles and walking hurriedly away, suggesting forced exodus.
Five women sit together in a sewing workshop, cutting and stitching fabric by a window.
A stylized woodcut of a man and woman holding a goat and a staff against a rural landscape.
Moses stands before a burning bush, holding a staff under a dark, striped sky.
Young person clutching a pitchfork stands in front of an older bearded figure, both staring forward.
Elderly woman in headscarf sits sleeping at a cold outdoor market stall surrounded by hanging goods.
A group of frightened civilians are being driven along a road by an armed officer with a baton.
Villagers engaging in daily tasks—cart hauling, eating at a table, and resting with a dog.
An elderly shoemaker hunches over his work, holding a shoe while a woman stands behind him.


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