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 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...
 File — Box: 3, Folder: 7

Scope and Contents: Lubell 3/7: 164 One of eight black ink and wash drawings (with gouache) from a folder titled Spanish Ballet Costumes, with an additional notation “for Benjamin Zemach, N.Y.C., 1939.” These drawings are of various characters and costumes, presumably done for a New York performance piece. Each identifies the character portrayed. This piece, identified as Zita, shows two young women dancing. The dress, hair and shawl...
 File — Box: 3, Folder: 7

Scope and Contents: Lubell 3/7: 165 One of eight black ink and wash drawings (with gouache) from a folder titled Spanish Ballet Costumes, with an additional notation “for Benjamin Zemach, N.Y.C., 1939.” These drawings are of various characters and costumes, presumably done for a New York performance piece. Each identifies the character portrayed. This piece, identified as Gertrude, is of two women wearing blouse, skirt, socks and head...
 File — Box: 3, Folder: 7

Scope and Contents: Lubell 3/7: 166 One of eight black ink and wash drawings (with gouache and graphite pencil) from a folder titled Spanish Ballet Costumes, with an additional notation “for Benjamin Zemach, N.Y.C., 1939.” These drawings are of various characters and costumes, presumably done for a New York performance piece. Each identifies the character portrayed. This piece, untitled, is of two women sitting back to back. One is wearing the “Gertrude” costume, and...
 File — Box: 3, Folder: 7

Scope and Contents: Lubell 3/7: 167 One of eight black ink and wash drawings (with gouache) from a folder titled Spanish Ballet Costumes, with an additional notation “for Benjamin Zemach, N.Y.C., 1939.” These drawings are of various characters and costumes, presumably done for a New York performance piece. Each identifies the character portrayed. This piece, identified by the names of the characters, is a drawing of four men in berets, black pants and cummerbunds,...
 File — Box: 3, Folder: 7

Scope and Contents: Lubell 3/7: 168 One of eight black ink and wash drawings (with gouache) from a folder titled Spanish Ballet Costumes, with an additional notation “for Benjamin Zemach, N.Y.C., 1939.” These drawings are of various characters and costumes, presumably done for a New York performance piece. Each identifies the character portrayed. This piece, identified as Sylvia, is of two women, wearing a blouse, skirt and head shawl....
 File — Box: 3, Folder: 7

Scope and Contents: Lubell 3/7: 169 One of eight black ink and wash drawings (with gouache) from a folder titled Spanish Ballet Costumes, with an additional notation “for Benjamin Zemach, N.Y.C., 1939.” These drawings are of various characters and costumes, presumably done for a New York performance piece. Each identifies the character portrayed. This piece, identified as Chorus, is of a man and a woman, both wearing large shawls....
 File — Box: 3, Folder: 7

Scope and Contents: Lubell 3/7: 170 One of eight black ink and wash drawings (with gouache) from a folder titled Spanish Ballet Costumes, with an additional notation “for Benjamin Zemach, N.Y.C., 1939.” These drawings are of various characters and costumes, presumably done for a New York performance piece. Each identifies the character portrayed. This piece, identified by the names of the two characters, Asa and Lee, is of two women dancing, one facing forward and the...
 File — Box: 3, Folder: 7

Scope and Contents: Lubell 3/7: 171 One of eight black ink and wash drawings (with gouache) from a folder titled Spanish Ballet Costumes, with an additional notation “for Benjamin Zemach, N.Y.C., 1939.” These drawings are of various characters and costumes, presumably done for a New York performance piece. Each identifies the character portrayed. This piece, identified by the names of the two characters, Vera and Ray, is of two women in different poses. Both wear...