Skip to main content
Smoke
Smoke
Courtesy of the Harn Museum of Art, Photography by Foad Seyed Mohammadi

Smoke

Artist Louis Breslow (American, 1908 - 2011)
Publisher/Publishing House Works Progress Administration - Federal Arts Project , NYC Studio (1935 - 1943)
Date1936-1943
Place of originNew York, New York
MediumWood engraving
Dimensionssheet: 8 13/16 x 11 3/8 in. (22.4 x 28.9 cm)
image: 6 x 8 in. (15.2 x 20.3 cm)
matt: 16 x 20 in. (40.6 x 50.8 cm)
ClassificationsPrints
Credit LineCourtesy of the Fine Arts Program, Public Buildings Service, U.S. General Services Administration, commissioned through the New Deal Art Projects, with gratitude to Dr. and Mrs. Corbin S. Carnell, in memory of E. Muriel Adams.
Object numberL2012.54.18
Collections
Visual Descriptionwaterfront of urban setting with three tugboats and figure fishing from dock
Tugboat aground, houses in background.
Louis Breslow
1936-1943
Boat scene of two figures unloading fish from hold of vessel.
Louis Breslow
1936-1943
A black and white print showing a vendor leaning on a street cart with a smoking chimney, facing two youths. The background features a cobblestone street bustling with pedestrians, a lamppost, and other pushcarts under storefront awnings.
Louis Breslow
c. 1935-1943
Cutting Ice
Louis Breslow
c. 1935-1941
Caricature of audience looking down on steeplechase
Louis Breslow
c. 1935-1941
Speech
Louis Breslow
c.1935
Bible Leaf, Haggai
French, Royal Workshop of St. Louis, Louis IX
c. 1260
A black and white abstract print featuring two overlapping geometric figures surrounded by areas of dense cross-hatching creating stark light and dark contrasts.
Louis Marcoussis
1931
Precisionist-like drawing of a train yard with trains (and steam from the engines), tracks, and tall buildings with cylindrical forms- all in soft, grainy style of rendering and dramatic light.
Louis Lozowick
1933
Waterfront with buildings and sailboat at a dock,  trees behind stores, people along street and on the dock.
David Burke
1936-1943
A black and white print depicting a snowy landscape. A tall, ruined stone chimney and bare trees stand in the midground, while scattered, snow-covered debris lies prominently in the foreground.
Louis Lozowick
1940
A waterfront scene with popular places to dine and drink; old wooden buildings on wooden docks; boats are at anchor in the bay harbor.
Albert James Webb
1936-1943
null