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Box 3

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 File — Box: 3, Folder: 6

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Lubell 3/6: 160

Pastel drawing (a medium not common to Lubell pieces). A portrait of a young woman on illustration board. Signed W. Milius [33].

43 x 27.7 cm

 File — Box: 3, Folder: 6

Scope and Contents: Lubell 3/6: 161 Ink and graphite pencil drawing (with gouache). Illustration for the Daily Worker, a New York-based Communist newspaper founded in 1924. 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. This painting depicts a billboard advertising the "World's Highest Standard of Living…there is no Way like...
 File — Box: 3, Folder: 6

Scope and Contents: 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...