A male and female factory worker stand holding tools with planes flying above and tanks below.

Hugo Gellert

Winning the Battle of Production

1943

Not on view

87 works in the collection
3 exhibitions
View more by this artist https://whitney.org/collection/works/43454

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 3/8 × 13 1/8 in. (39.1 × 33.3 cm)

Accession number
2013.62.16

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
artworks/43454

Part of a series:
Century of the Common Man: Two Speeches by Henry A. Wallace
20 works

A man reads a newspaper while holding a child at a table with fruit.
Two farmers stand behind parents holding infants while one man grips a pitchfork.
A baby stands between large red hands holding an olive branch and a flame.
A horned Nazi soldier with yellow eyes and bloody claws looms over spilled gold coins.
Century of the Common Man title page with credits to Henry A. Wallace and Hugo Gellert.
Two large hands with opposing political symbols shake while a small Nazi figure struggles between them.
A woman in a red headscarf washes her hands at a blue faucet with yellow soap.
A large blue-clad man stands knee-deep in water holding a dripping knife while ships circle.
A determined soldier wearing a blue helmet grips a rifle across his chest.
People gathered around a long table with a dagger, broken chains, and a sword.

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