"Subway Construction, Moscow": An Early 20th C. Woodcut Engraving by Abramovitz, 1935

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This is a signed woodcut engraving entitled "Subway Construction, Moscow" created by Albert Abramovitz in 1935, after a trip to … more This is a signed woodcut engraving entitled "Subway Construction, Moscow" created by Albert Abramovitz in 1935, after a trip to the Soviet Union. It depicts many Russian workers actively constructing a two level subway, primarily out of wood.
This is an excellent impression, printed on deckle edge watermarked paper (Hazelbourn Deckle Edge Book), with wide margins. It is pencil signed by the artist in the lower margin on the right and titled in the lower left. The sheet measures 12.75" in height and 14.5" in width. There are remnants of hinge tape at the edge of the sheet in the upper corners and minimal wrinkling in the margin in the lower left corner. less