1960s Selma Bluestein New York City Etching

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Selma Cohen Bluestein (1914-1985) "3rd Ave L" mixed media etching with embossing, aquatint and collagraph. Pencil signed, titled and numbered … more Selma Cohen Bluestein (1914-1985) "3rd Ave L" mixed media etching with embossing, aquatint and collagraph. Pencil signed, titled and numbered 1 of 7.

Selma and her husband Abe were active in the anarchist movement in the U.S. in the 20th century. Abe worked as a reporter for the Freie Arveiter Stimme, a Yiddish anarchist publication in New York, and Selma was an artist and worked with the WPA. They married as grandparents to secure their right to Social Security.

She died in Croton-on-Hudson in 1985. less