Details
Description
Selma Cohen Bluestein (1914-1985) "Bethel Chapel" mixed media etching with embossing, aquatint and collagraph. Pencil signed, titled and numbered from …
Read more
Selma Cohen Bluestein (1914-1985) "Bethel Chapel" mixed media etching with embossing, aquatint and collagraph. Pencil signed, titled and numbered from an edition of 5. Bethel Chapel (spelled Beth-El by Bluestein) is a 1790 meeting house in the Hudson River Valley.
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.
See less
- Dimensions
- 11.5ʺW × 0.1ʺD × 16.5ʺH
- Styles
- Traditional
- Art Subjects
- Landscape
- Frame Type
- Unframed
- Period
- 1970s
- Country of Origin
- United States
- Item Type
- Vintage, Antique or Pre-owned
- Materials
- Etching
- Condition
- Good Condition, Original Condition Unaltered, Some Imperfections
- Color
- Black
- Condition Notes
- Overall good antique condition. Overall good antique condition. less
Questions about the item?
Related Collections
- Haley Mathewes Original Prints
- Original Prints in Little Rock
- Moorish Original Prints
- Paul Wunderlich Original Prints
- Gemstone Original Prints
- Laminate Original Prints
- Jean Lurcat Original Prints
- Robert Delaunay Original Prints
- Christo and Jeanne-Claude Original Prints
- Classical Greek Original Prints
- Hellenistic Original Prints
- Anton Schutz Original Prints
- Wool Original Prints
- Lucia Jones Original Prints
- Mark Kostabi Original Prints
- Etruscan Revival Original Prints
- Black and White Prints
- Framed Prints
- Botanical Prints
- Woodblock Prints
- Screen Prints
- Japanese Woodblock Prints
- Bird Prints
- Post Impressionist Original Prints
- John Stobart Original Prints