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 File — Box: 17, Folder: 10

Sketchbooks, Folder 1,, (1934-1937 and undated)

Dates

  • (1934-1937 and undated)

Scope and Contents

Copied pages from the artist’s 1930s sketchbooks. The originals can be found in the Smithsonian's Archives of American Art, with some also in this collection. Titles or descriptions of the copied works are listed below (Folder 1 holds copies with known titles, and Folder 2 holds copies with no known titles:

Artist (1936), woodcut.

The Artists. Four copies, with different notations. One note states that this "a 10 day sit-down strike in Chicago" from the WPA office and artists, and identifies three of the individuals as [Tchaikbosoff?], Adrian Troy, Mitchell Siporin. (1937). Lubell 181 is an original of this piece.

The Banner – Spain (1936) Lubell 189-191 are originals of this piece.

The Bundlestiff (1934)

Central Park (1934). Three separate sketches with the same title of men lying on the grass. Two are of one man and one is of another.

Central Park (1935)

Central Park Bench (1935)

Central Park Reading (1934)

The Hatrack (1936)

Homeless NYC (1934). Two separate sketches with the same title.

In the Library (1934)

The Library (1935), also called Steellbook.

Lithograph (1936)

Lower East Side (1935) Two different pencil drawings of a woman (in a kitchen?).

New York City (1934)

On the Subway (1934)

The Park Bench (1934)

The Picket - 2 (1935 – 1936); enlarged copy of an aquatint. The Picket #1 (not this piece) original aquatint and drawing are Lubell 185a-b.

Resting (1935)

Shoeshine (1935)

Sleepers, Sketchbook Central Park (1934 – 5?)

Sleeping. Central Park (1934)

Sojourner Truth (1940s), woodcut (see woodcut print Lubell 199).

Soup Kitchen (1934) – for original lithographs, see Lubell 184a-b.

Unemployed NYC (1934)

Language of Materials

From the Collection:

English