Amusement in the City

In these prints, children tease one another, women gossip, men play dice, and residents of the Bronx ice skate. In Central Park Idyll, Fritz Eichenberg tended toward political satire, depicting a robust, well-dressed man feeding geese while his attendant looks on. Eichenberg offers the antithesis of the disempowered working-class body, seemingly to comment on the disparities in wealth across the city. Eichenberg believed that the woodcut, employed here, was the most democratic artistic medium.