Metro Construction, Moscow
Print
1936 (made)
1936 (made)
| Artist/Maker | |
| Place of origin |
Signed with monogram, again in pencil with surname, inscribed with title and 29.
Object details
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| Object type | |
| Title | Metro Construction, Moscow (assigned by artist) |
| Materials and techniques | Linocut on Japan paper |
| Brief description | Linocut entitled 'Metro Construction, Moscow', Albert Abramovitz, 1936 |
| Physical description | Signed with monogram, again in pencil with surname, inscribed with title and 29. |
| Object history | The artist's son related that Albert Abramovitz left his birthplace of Russia in 1905 for the USA but returned to Moscow between 1933 and 1935 when he recorded the construction of the Moscow Metro for the Soviet government. |
| Place depicted | |
| Collection | |
| Accession number | E.86-1978 |
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| Record created | June 30, 2009 |
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