Teeming Ingots

James Edmund Allen American

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Allen engaged the contemporary subject of industrial labor using the traditional printmaking technique of etching. Etching can facilitate a powerful chiaroscuro effect through extreme contrasts of light and shadow, which allowed Allen to imbue his prints of construction workers with a sense of theatricality and heroism.

Teeming Ingots, James Edmund Allen (American, Louisiana, Missouri 1894–1964 New York), Etching

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