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HUBERT MESIBOV (1916-2016)
Spud. Color etching, aquatint and carborundum. 177x128 mm; 7x5 inches, wide margins. Signed and titled in pencil, lower margin. Published by the Works Progress Administration. 1938.
A very good impression with strong colors.
Together with fellow Philadelphia Federal Art Project Graphics workshop artists Dox Thrash (1893-1965) and Michael J. Gallagher (1898-1965), Mesibov perfected the carborundum or "Carbograph" printing technique. The carborundum print was first exhibited to the public by the Federal Art Project at a February 1938 exhibition of prints at the Philadelphia Museum and in October at the Museum of Natural History in Washington, D.C.
