Bridge Workers

Source catalog description

This description refers to material held by Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture. Visual details below describe the original material.

A color screenprint with an abstracted image of construction workers on a bridge. Done in tones of grey and golden-brown, the print depicts the side and understructure of a bridge. Two figures stand on scaffolding under the bridge’s understructure. The figures and parts of the scaffolding and bridge are indistinct, depicted in negative space without ink. There is a wide white margin around the image. Handwritten in graphite in the bottom margin is [10/17] at left, ["Bridge Workers"] at center, and the artist's signature [Mavis Pusey] at right. There is some slight foxing on the reverse.

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