A Heavy Cross
Charlotte RothsteinWW-1941-086849
1941·Color etching and aquatint, with burnishing, inked à la poupée, on white wove paper·Image/plate: 15 × 12.5 cm (5 15/16 × 4 15/16 in.); Sheet: 17.8 × 14.8 cm (7 1/16 × 5 7/8 in.)
<p>Rothstein’s composition portrays a young boy collecting a pile of wood, either at work or at home. Until the Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938, such exploitative practices were common. Even afterward, children may have done menial labor in order to support their families.</p>
Catalogue
- Year
- 1941
- Dimensions
- Image/plate: 15 × 12.5 cm (5 15/16 × 4 15/16 in.); Sheet: 17.8 × 14.8 cm (7 1/16 × 5 7/8 in.)
- Collection
- Art Institute of Chicago
- Artist
- Charlotte Rothstein
Artist
Charlotte Rothstein
Printmaking
Charlotte Rothstein (American, born Poland, 1912)
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- Charlotte Rothstein
- Year
- 1941
- Dimensions
- Image/plate: 15 × 12.5 cm (5 15/16 × 4 15/16 in.); Sheet: 17.8 × 14.8 cm (7 1/16 × 5 7/8 in.)
- Watts ID
- WW-1941-086849
Source
- Collection
- Art Institute of Chicago
- Source
- aic
- Reference
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- Status
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