Subway Station, 14th Street

 

Armin Landeck

  1905 - 1984 (biography)

1951 / printed later 

copper engraving 

7 7/8 x 15 7/8" platemark 

"OLR/ACL" pencil lower right 

100 

 

Kraeft 107, illustrated p. 76 

antique-white wove 

published 

estate of the artist 

TILA118 

$750.00 

According to Landeck, this the 14th Street stop of the Lexington Avenue Line of the Interborough Rapid Transit (IRT). The New York Subway was privately owned and operated by the IRT when it opened in 1904. In June 1940, New York City purchased the IRT. Besides the modernist approach to the subject the scene is particularly eerie because there are only two people on the platform waiting for trains. One is rendered in black as if it is only a shadow while the other person's identity remains hidden behind a newspaper.