Construction Work Boulder Dam #5

Accession Number
1935.2

Title
Construction Work Boulder Dam #5

Artist(s)
Adrian D. Clem

Artist Nationality
American (North American)

Object Creation Date
circa 1935

Medium & Support
lithograph on paper

Dimensions
21 ⅛ in x 16 9/16 in (53.66 cm x 42.07 cm);32 1/16 in x 26 1/16 in (81.44 cm x 66.2 cm);23 11/16 in x 19 in (60.17 cm x 48.26 cm);21 ⅛ in x 16 3/10 in (53.66 cm x 41.43 cm)

Credit Line
Courtesy of the Fine Arts Collection, U.S. General Services Administration, New Deal art project

Subject matter
This study of a disfigured and destitute casualty of the Great War is an example of George Grosz's tendency to use art as indictment against the indifference of the powerful in the face of postwar suffering; the grievously injured veteran who must resort to begging to survive is a type commonly found in the artist's Weimar era work

Physical Description
Seated man with disfigured face and amputated lower legs, shabbily dressed, holding a crutch along with a bunch of flowers in his right hand

Primary Object Classification
Print

Collection Area
Modern and Contemporary

Rights
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Keywords
WPA
cliffs
construction (assembling)
modern and contemporary art

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