Three Lane Traffic
Date1938
Artist
Harry Gottlieb
American painter and printmaker, 1895–1992
MediumSingle-color lithograph
Dimensionscomposition: 10 7/16 × 14 in. (26.5 × 35.6 cm)
sheet: 13 3/16 × 17 1/8 in. (33.5 × 43.5 cm)
sheet: 13 3/16 × 17 1/8 in. (33.5 × 43.5 cm)
Credit LineGift of Helen Farr Sloan, 1978
Object number1978-142
On View
Not on viewClassificationsPRINT
Label TextRomanian-born artist Harry Gottleib held several roles in New York's Federal Art Project, including as a printmaking instructor at the Federal Art Project's Harlem Community Art Center. Three Lane Traffic highlights the social stratification Gottleib found in Depression-era New York, where picketing workers share a rainy sidewalk with harried commuters while the well-to-do lounge indoors.
