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Color print of a dock with an orange truck-mounted crane with a suspended bucket. A large white and brown ship is moored in the background. Several figures stand around the dock, one beside a "STOP" sign.
Dock Wallopers
Courtesy of the Harn Museum of Art, Photography by Foad Seyed Mohammadi

Dock Wallopers

Artist Leonard Pytlak (American, 1910-1998)
Publisher/Publishing House Works Progress Administration - Federal Arts Project (1935 - 1943)
Datec. 1939-1940
MediumColor woodcut
Dimensionssheet: 15 1/16 x 17 7/8 in. (38.3 x 45.4 cm)
image: 11 3/4 x 14 in. (29.8 x 35.6 cm)
matt: 20 x 24 in. (50.8 x 61 cm)
ClassificationsPrints
Credit LineGift of Dr. and Mrs. Corbin S. Carnell, in memory of E. Muriel Adams.
Object number1992.11.112
Collections
Visual DescriptionColor print of a dock with an orange truck-mounted crane with a suspended bucket. A large white and brown ship is moored in the background. Several figures stand around the dock, one beside a "STOP" sign.



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