Flood
- Date
- 1937
- made in
- New York, New York, United States, North and Central America
- Classification
- Prints
- Collection
- Prints, Drawings, and Photographs
- Current Location
- Not on view
- Dimensions
- image: 13 1/4 × 19 1/8 in. (33.6 × 48.6 cm)
sheet: 15 13/16 × 22 3/4 in. (40.1 × 57.8 cm) - Credit Line
- Gift of the Federal Works Agency, Work Projects Administration
- Rights
- Public Domain
- Object Number
- 188:1943
NOTES
Distorted, desperate figures reach for each other in a cityscape torn apart by rushing waters. Boris Gorelick may have created this print in response to the devastating flood of January 1937, when the Ohio River inundated communities from Pittsburgh to Cairo, Illinois. A Russian Jewish immigrant, Gorelick frequently employed Surrealist techniques of montage and fragmentation in his prints to raise consciousness about social, economic, or ecological crises. In addition to being one of the original members of the Federal Art Project’s New York lithography workshop, Gorelick also painted murals and established the Phoenix Art Center in Arizona.
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