Washington D.C.,, (1939)

Lubell 3/6: 163

Ink and wash drawing (with gouache) of a somber urban scene. A lone child flying a kite is in the mid ground, but the most prominent and important image in the piece is of a white car, abandoned and forgotten in the woods behind a row of drab buildings. It appears to be winter – there is a pile of snow, the one non-grey or black color in the piece, and the trees are dead – and like many pieces during the season, life appears to be largely absent. Vines and weeds are slowly, futilely trying to cover the car, but it continues to stick out; it's more an insurmountable symbol of poisonous industry than anything else. Like two others, originally in a folder labelled “Washington, DC 1939 (Lubell 161-163) this is a somewhat to very dark and satirical critique of the American economic system at the time. Signed W. Milius. One of this Washington, DC series, Lubell 162, is housed in the series WATERCOLORS.

22.7 x 36.6 cm