Sep 16, 2010 - Sale 2221

Sale 2221 - Lot 96

Unsold
Estimate: $ 1,500 - $ 2,500
THEO HIOS
Brooklyn Bridge Workers.

Lithograph, 1937. 392x295 mm; 16x11 5/8 inches, full margins. Edition of approximately 25. Signed, titled and dated in pencil, lower margin. A fine impression.

Hios created Brooklyn Bridge Wokers after his oil painting of the same title while he was employed by the New York City Works Progress Administration (WPA). Shortly after making this print, Hios enlisted and served as a combat photgrapher for the US Marine Corps in WWII.