Dead End
Date1939
Artist
Joseph Vogel
Austrian lithographer and muralist, 1911–1998
Publisher
New York City WPA
(1935–1943)
MediumLithograph
Dimensionscomposition: 17 7/8 × 17 7/8 in. (45.4 × 45.4 cm)
sheet: 13 13/16 × 19 9/16 in. (35.1 × 49.7 cm)
sheet: 13 13/16 × 19 9/16 in. (35.1 × 49.7 cm)
Credit LineGift of Michael J. Ettner, 2026
Object number2026-1.228
On View
Not on viewClassificationsPRINT
Label TextLike many artists whose families fled the continent in the preceding decades, Austrian-born Joseph Vogel was gravely concerned with the proliferation of fascist leadership and violence across Europe in the 1930s. Vogel was inspired by what he saw as the socially engaged Surrealism epitomized by Pablo Picasso's evocative depiction of the Nazi and Italian bombardment of the Spanish town of Guernica in 1937. Vogel's disrupted forms and violent imagery have many affinities with Picasso's masterpiece, which Vogel encountered in New York on the painting's international tour.
