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Urban residential street.
Jersey Houses
Courtesy of the Harn Museum of Art, Photography by Foad Seyed Mohammadi

Jersey Houses

Artist Ann de Kohary , active ca. 1960 (American)
Publisher/Publishing House Works Progress Administration - Federal Arts Project (1935 - 1943)
Date1936-1943
MediumLithograph
Dimensionssheet: 16 x 22 3/4 in. (40.6 x 57.8 cm)
image: 12 x 15 3/8 in. (30.5 x 39.1 cm)
ClassificationsPrints
Credit LineGift of Dr. and Mrs. Corbin S. Carnell, in memory of E. Muriel Adams.
Object number1992.11.78
Collections
Visual DescriptionA black and white print showing leaning, dilapidated wooden houses on uneven terrain beside a rocky cliff. Small figures gather near wooden stairs and debris. In the background, an industrial facility with a tall smokestack emits thick dark smoke.
Urban scene of dilapidated houses with figure collecting scrap wood.
Back Lots
Ann de Kohary
1936-1943
A black and white print of a wood-paneled room with a large potbelly stove on the left. Several figures sit on benches or stand near a rounded ticket booth on the right.
L-Station Waiting Room
Ann de Kohary
1935-1943
Urban street with gas pumps.
Hudson Street
Ann de Kohary
1936-1943
A black and white print of a large industrial facility featuring tall buildings and elevated conveyor structures. Below, a train with loaded cars sits on railway tracks beside billowing smoke. A hillside town appears in the background.
No. 6 Collieny
Riva Helfond
1936-1943
Vibrant abstract print composed of flowing, concentric rainbow-colored bands. A central triangular form emits undulating, cloud-like shapes from its peak. The foreground consists of wavy horizontal bands, set against a background of diagonal rainbow stripes.
Mt. Fuji
Ay-O 靉嘔 (Takao Iijima飯島孝雄)
1975
A dense, sepia-toned print depicting a chaotic, highly detailed scene of fragmented towers, scaffolding, and bridges. The intricate composition is filled with ladders, flying debris, smoke plumes, and countless tiny figures swarming the sprawling, jagged structures.
Triumph of Death
Albin Brunovsky
1975
Interior scene of stairway. A female figure sits on the fabric-lined staircase. The stairs are bounded by a wall on one side and a column and banister on the other.
Stairway of House Where Grant Party Was Housed in Mexico City
Frank Hamilton Taylor
1880
Women walk on the street in front of and up the stairs to the Chase-Lloyd House, a three-story Georgian townhouse, in the Colonial Annapolis Historic District, built for Samuel Chase (1741–1811), a young lawyer and signer of the Declaration of Independence. The house is fenced-in and includes a garden with a large tree in the front yard; a figure enters/exists the main door.
Chase House, Annapolis
Childe Hassam
1929
A dark, dramatic print depicts a walled city crumbling under a stormy sky. Jagged lightning strikes from swirling clouds onto distant mountains. In the foreground, soldiers gather on rocky terrain, blowing trumpets, while the city walls collapse behind them.
The Fall of the Walls of Jericho, Joshua VI
John Martin
1838
Jersey Relief Project
Jersey Relief Project
Ann Nooney
1936-1943
A street with a row of houses going down the hill; telephone poles, three women in the street; distant view of hills.
Co-Houses
Beatrice Mandelman
1936-1943
houses with people in them.
Untitled (Men in houses)
Utagawa (Ando) Hiroshige 歌川 広重
undated

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