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Coal Pickers
Coal Pickers
Courtesy of the Harn Museum of Art, Photography by Foad Seyed Mohammadi

Coal Pickers

Artist David Burke (American, active 20th Century)
Publisher/Publishing House Works Progress Administration - Federal Arts Project , NYC Studio (1935 - 1943)
Date1939
Place of originNew York, New York
MediumColor woodcut
Dimensionssheet: 14 1/2 x 18 in. (36.8 x 45.7 cm)
image: 10 1/8 x 14 1/16 in. (25.7 x 35.7 cm)
matt: 20 x 24 in. (50.8 x 61 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 numberL2012.54.21
Collections
Visual Descriptionfigures picking up coal from huge piles on industrial site
Waterfront with buildings and sailboat at a dock, trees behind stores, people along street and on the dock.
Back Bay
David Burke
1936-1943
A huge hillside of coal with geometric forms sticking up out of the coal.
Coal Landscape
Chet Harmon La More
1936-1943
Eastside Landscape
Eastside Landscape
David Burke
1935-1943
An album of 56 prints in ink and color on paper.
Fuchu: Female Tea Pickers
Utagawa (Ando) Hiroshige 歌川 広重
Edo period (1615-1867), 1843-1847
A centaur (half-human, half-horse) rears back on its hind legs; the centaur holds a huge sword in one hand and a Christian cross in the other hand; it has been injured by a spear in its side.
El Centauro de la Conquista (The Centaur of the Conquest)
David Alfaro Siqueiros
1944-1945
Three female figures sing while picking berries from branches. They wear various robes and headcloths.
Le Chant de Fileuses. Mongolie (The Song of the Seamstresses. Mongolia)
Paul Jacoulet
1958
A view down the street of a deserted and derelict town. Buildings are falling apart, piles of broken wood are in the street
Contemporary City
Nan Lurie
1936-1943
A man seated on the ground, wearing a head covering (turban), with piles of coins next to boxes on a cloth; one of 35 original lithographs in a spiral-bound portfolio.
Money Changer
Franz Altschuler
1954
Portrait of Afghan land owners and laborers, with implements taken during the British occupation of Afghanistan during the Second Anglo-Afghan War, 1878-1880.
Landholders and Labourers
John Burke
Photo date: 1878-1880; Reproduction print: 2010-2011
A view of multiple houses in a hilly landscape, church spire in the distance.
New England Scene
Ainslie Burke
undated
A black and white composite photograph showing a deep, pitch-black trench dividing rows of concrete blocks. A smooth, glowing sphere rests within the dark foreground void. In the background is a large hill, piles of gravel, and a cloudy sky.
Untitled
Jerry Uelsmann
1979
A topless man sits on a beach chair in a construction lot facing a coal power plant. Other men stand and sit around him.
Man in Beach Chair, Coal Fired Power Plant, Jining, Shandong Province, China (ed. 3/10)
Philipp Scholz Rittermann
2010

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