Aquatint on cream wove paper, circa 1941. 265x190 mm; 10 1/2x7 1/2 inches, wide (full?) margins. Signed and titled in pencil, lower right. Published by the Federal Art Project, WPA, Philadelphia. Timestain. A very good impression of this scarce WPA print with inky plate edges .
We have found only three other impressions of this print - in the collections of the Philadelphia Museum of Art, The Free Library of Philadelphia and the Illinois State Museum of Art, Springfield, IL.
A great example of the artist's skill with aquatint, Ittmann describes this print as "a beautiful study of light glinting off the geometrical shapes and patterns of the industrial workplace, with diminutive workers in the foreground." There is another known version of this print - a drypoint proof with just the lines of the docks and with no figures. Ittmann 65.
