Herman Volz (1904-1990)
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"Scrap Iron" 1939, Lithograph. Edition: 40. Signed in pencil, Volz, lower right under image, also signed in the stone, lower right; numbered, 29/40, lower left.
Image: 10 3/8 x 13 7/8 inches (263 x 352 mm). Sheet: 12 5/8 x 18 inches (320 x 457 mm).
Inventory ID: 1180
Image: 10 3/8 x 13 7/8 inches (263 x 352 mm). Sheet: 12 5/8 x 18 inches (320 x 457 mm).
Inventory ID: 1180
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Very good condition. Good margins. Printed on white laid paper with Warren's Old Style watermark. Also known by the alternative titles: Picket Line, or No Scrap. In 1939, picket lines were organized in U.S. western port cities to protest the sale of of scrap iron and steel to Japan. It was thought that the scrap was being turned into war materials and being used against China (2,000,000 tons were shipped in 1939). Chinese-American citizens, longshoremen, and others, eventually organized protests in objection to this practice. Though short lived, the protests had there affect. In late 1940, Franklin Roosevelt, using new congressionally approved powers, imposed a de facto embargo preventing the shipment of metals to Japan. In consequence, Japan went to Central and Southern America for its materials. This print depicts a mixed ethnic picket line near the San Francisco Bay docks - ships visible in the upper left, scrap iron to the right. In the collection of the Smithsonian American Art Museum, recorded under the title Scrap Iron.
Very good condition. Good margins. Printed on white laid paper with Warren's Old Style watermark. Also known by the alternative titles: Picket Line, or No Scrap. In 1939, picket lines were organized in U.S. western port cities to protest the sale of of scrap iron and steel to Japan. It was thought that the scrap was being turned into war materials and being used against China (2,000,000 tons were shipped in 1939). Chinese-American citizens, longshoremen, and others, eventually organized protests in objection to this practice. Though short lived, the protests had there affect. In late 1940, Franklin Roosevelt, using new congressionally approved powers, imposed a de facto embargo preventing the shipment of metals to Japan. In consequence, Japan went to Central and Southern America for its materials. This print depicts a mixed ethnic picket line near the San Francisco Bay docks - ships visible in the upper left, scrap iron to the right. In the collection of the Smithsonian American Art Museum, recorded under the title Scrap Iron.
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