Tenement Interior
c. 1939
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View on museum website →Medium
lithograph
Dimensions
image: 245 x 280 mm (irregular) sheet: 287 x 330 mm
Classification
Department
CG-W
Museum
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Credit
Reba and Dave Williams Collection, Gift of Reba and Dave Williams
Accession Number
2008.115.588
Art Historical Context
**Tenement Interior** by Ida York Abelman, created around 1939, captures the stark realities of urban life during the Great Depression. This lithograph, measuring 245 x 280 mm on an irregular image area and a 287 x 330 mm sheet, belongs to the National Gallery of Art's Reba and Dave Williams Collection. As a print from the Classification of Prints in the CG-W Department, it exemplifies the era's social realism, a movement where artists documented the struggles of everyday Americans amid economic hardship. Lithography, Abelman's chosen medium, allowed for detailed, reproducible images that cou...