Tuesday, August 29, 2017

New Deal Tugboat Art (3/5): "Tug Boat" by Max Kahn

Above: "Tug Boat," a crayon, brush, and tusche lithograph, by Max Kahn (1902-2005), created while he was in the WPA's Federal Art Project, 1937. Max Kahn met his future wife Eleanor Coen (1916-2010) while the two were at the Art Institute of Chicago and also while they worked in the WPA. They married in 1942 and went on to become two of the world's most renown lithographers. Image courtesy of the General Services Administration and the Baltimore Museum of Art.

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