Hugo Gellert

Free World or Slave World

1943

Three farmers stand with wheat and a child while a large swastika looms over a crowd.
Three farmers stand with wheat and a child while a large swastika looms over a crowd.

Hugo Gellert, Free World or Slave World, 1943. Screenprint and lithograph, sheet (open): 20 × 32 in. (50.8 × 81.3 cm) Sheet (folded): 20 × 16 in. (50.8 × 40.6 cm) Image: 15 1/4 × 13 1/8 in. (38.7 × 33.3 cm). Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; purchase, with funds from the Print Committee 2013.62.2. © Estate of Hugo Gellert, courtesy Mary Ryan Gallery, New York

Recto

Not on view

Date
1943

Classification
Prints

Medium
Screenprint and lithograph

Dimensions
Sheet (open): 20 × 32 in. (50.8 × 81.3 cm) Sheet (folded): 20 × 16 in. (50.8 × 40.6 cm) Image: 15 1/4 × 13 1/8 in. (38.7 × 33.3 cm)

Accession number
2013.62.2

Edition
Edition unknown | Edition possibly 54

Publication
Published by International Workers Order

Credit line
Purchase, with funds from the Print Committee

Rights and reproductions
© Estate of Hugo Gellert, courtesy Mary Ryan Gallery, New York

API
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