Bedlam
Corners
= c.1940,
Drypoint.
Edition 15. Signed,
titled and numbered 6-15, in pencil.
Image size 8 15/16
x 12 inches (232 x 305 mm); sheet size 11 1/8 x 14 5/8 inches (283 x 371
mm).
A fine, rich impression,
in warm black ink, on cream wove paper, with margins (1 to 1 1/2 inches),
in excellent condition.
Exhibited: Third Print
Exhibition of the Library of Congress, Washington, DC, 1945; Society of
American Etchers at the National Academy of Design, New York, 1945; 19th
Annual Exhibition of the Seattle Art Museum, Seattle Washington, 1947.
"Bedlam Corners
is the intersection at Forty-Second Street and Third Avenue. It has the
reputation of being the noisiest in New York City. The confusing structural
elements of the Neighborhood; the clattering old third avenue elevated
trains echoed by its counterpart, the surface cars directly below; the
forty-second street crosstown cars and the broadway trolley, the passenger
cars, taxicabs, trucks and trailers; the construction gang of welders,
stone cutters, drillers and diggers; all in unison, create a deafening
bedlam that numbs the senses to the very roots." -Donald Vogel
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