Cuyahoga
- Date
- 1936
- Material
- Offset soft-ground etching
- made in
- Cleveland, Ohio, United States, North and Central America
- Classification
- Prints
- Collection
- Prints, Drawings, and Photographs
- Current Location
- Not on view
- Dimensions
- 12 7/8 x 9 1/2 in. (32.7 x 24.1 cm)
- Credit Line
- Gift of the Federal Works Agency, Work Projects Administration
- Rights
- Public Domain
- Object Number
- 203:1943
NOTES
The industrial strain on Cleveland’s Cuyahoga River appears in this jumble of machinery and almost too-brilliant sun. From 1935, Kálmán Kubinyi, the son of Hungarian immigrants, worked as the supervisor of the Federal Art Project print project in Cleveland, contributing to its particularly innovative spirit. In developing the technique termed “offset soft ground,” he created a way for artists to transfer a drawing directly onto the etching plate. The soft ground picked up every shift in pressure and texture of the crayon such that it appeared in the final image.
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