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Subway
Artist
Fritz Eichenberg
(American, 1901 - 1990)
Date1934
MediumWood engraving
DimensionsSheet: 12 x 9 in. (30.5 x 22.9 cm)
Credit LineGift of J. Fred Beamer
Object number92.34
Collections
ClassificationsWork on Paper
Object NameEngraving
DepartmentPermanent Collection
CultureNorth American
NationalityAmerican
On View
Not on viewCentury
- Twentieth
Signedbottom right in pencil: Fritz Eichenberg
Inscribed"Subway", Ed. 200, ll
Edition200
Exhibition HistoryPublic Spaces/Private Lives, Palmer Museum of Art, September 11 – December 7, 2025; Celebrating Forty Years of Gifts: Works on Paper from the Permanent Collection, Palmer Museum of Art, September 25, 2012 – January 20, 2013; PSU Collects WPA, Palmer Museum of Art, January 4 – March 5, 2000ProvenanceJ. Fred Beamer, unknown method and date of acquisition.Published ReferencesThe American Scene on Paper: Paintings and Drawings from the Schoen Collection (Athens, GA: Georgia Museum of Art, 2008), 92 (ill.), 93.
Ellen Ekedal and Susan Barnes Robinson, The Spirit of the City: American Urban Paintings, Prints, and Drawings, 1900–1952 (Los Angeles, Laband Art Gallery, Loyola Marymount University, 1986), 22, 23 (ill.).
Seymour Chwast and Steven Heller, eds., The Art of New York (New York: Harry N. Abrams, 1983), 74 (ill.).
Fritz Eichenberg: Fifty Years of Wood Engraving (New York: Associated American Artists, 1977), n.p.