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Estimate: $ 2,500 - $ 3,500
JAMES E. ALLEN The Builders.
Etching, aquatint and drypoint, 1933. 250x303 mm; 9 7/8x11 7/8 inches, full margins. Edition of 100. Signed in pencil, lower right. Published by the Association of American Etchers, New York. A very good, dark impression on cream wove paper.
Closely-related in subject matter and composition to Lewis Hine's iconic photographs of high altitude I-beam iron workers. The Builders depicts daredevil riveters securing a piece of the Empire State Building nearing completion, in 1931. Ryan 62.
