West Anchor to East
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lithograph
Dimensions
image: 310 x 209 mm sheet: 466 x 324 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
2008.115.3772
Art Historical Context
"West Anchor to East" a striking 1936 lithograph by Otis William Old, capturing a moment in American printmaking during the Great Depression era. Measuring 310 x 209 mm on a larger 466 x 324 mm sheet, this work belongs to the Gallery of Art's Reba and Dave Williams Collection, generously gifted by its namesakes. Oldfield, an active artist in the 1930s, employed lithography—a planographic technique where drawings on stone or metal plates are inked and transferred to paper—to create detailed, reproducible images that democratized access to fine art. Lithography's versatility allowed Oldfield to...