Gobbers, Git a Bag!!!
<p>Bernece Berkman was a committed member of the Artists Union, founded in New York during the Great Depression. Her activism in part led her to depict the Chicago urban environment, focusing on the symbiotic relationship between artists and laborers. Berkman attended SAIC in 1927–28, and later she studied privately with Todros Geller and Rudolph Weisenborn. <em>Gobbers, Git a Bag!!!</em> is an unusually colorful screenprint depicting a peanut vendor in a park. Printed for the WPA, this work is one of many prints Berkman executed during this time.</p>
Catalogue
- Year
- 1941
- Dimensions
- Image: 41.4 × 60.3 cm (16 5/16 × 23 3/4 in.); Sheet: 50.5 × 65.9 cm (19 15/16 × 26 in.)
- Collection
- Art Institute of Chicago
- Artist
- Bernece Berkman
Artist
Printmaking
Bernece Berkman (American, 1911-1988)
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- Bernece Berkman
- Year
- 1941
- Dimensions
- Image: 41.4 × 60.3 cm (16 5/16 × 23 3/4 in.); Sheet: 50.5 × 65.9 cm (19 15/16 × 26 in.)
- Watts ID
- WW-1941-087118
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- Collection
- Art Institute of Chicago
- Source
- aic
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