Yachtsman

 

Joseph Leboit

  1907 - 2002 (biography)

c. 1935  

color woodcut 

15 1/2 x 19 11/16" image 

pencil, lower right 

unnumbered from an edition of about 28 impressions 

pencil titled; WPA stamp, lower left 

NEWARK: FA2165 

thin, antique-white wove 

published 

New York WPA 

MOLE105 

$1,500.00 

Leboit's background in psychology twinned his background in art, and his pursuit of both subjects are expressed in his extensive body of work, where the extremes of the human condition are shown side by side. Here, a tongue in cheek perspective of a gentleman of leisure contrasts with the majority of American reality during the time of this work's execution: the Great Depression. Leboit made this when he was employed by the Works Progress Administration, and has the stamp of the New York WPA in the lower left margin.