Cutting Ice
Cutting Ice

Currently not on view

Cutting Ice

Louis Breslow, American, 1908–2011
x1941-16

Information

Title
Cutting Ice
Maker
Louis Breslow
Medium

Wood engraving

Dimensions

block: 20.5 x 15.5 cm. (8 1/16 x 6 1/8 in.)
sheet: 29 x 22.4 cm. (11 7/16 x 8 13/16 in.)

Credit Line

Federal Art Project, W.P.A. Loan

Object Number
x1941-16
Signatures

Signed in graphite, lower right: Louis Breslow

Inscription

Titled in graphite, lower center: Cutting Ice

Culture
American
Type
prints, wood engravings
Techniques
wood engraving (process)
Subject
workers, clouds, cutting equipment, figures (representations), landscapes (representations), men, ice, bodies of water

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