Gardening (WPA)

 

Isadore Weiner

  1910 - 1941 (biography)

1938  

lithograph 

15 1/2 x 10 7/8" image 

pencil signed Isadore in lower right 

25 of 25  

dated after signature in pencil; label verso with name of artist, date, etc. 

an impression is in the Library of Congress, Call Number: FP-XX-W423, no. 1 

ivory wove Strathmore paper 

published 

Chicago WPA 

AFAE204 

$400.00 

This original lithograph print is an example of Isadore Weiner's Depression era art. With the male figure in the back hunched over in heavy toil, the young woman in front momentarily gazes before the artist. The title of the print does not suggest gardening for leisure purposes, but for survival.