Mining Town, No. 2

ca. 1932

Not on view

Here, Fookes depicts the spread of industry into the countryside and the towns built in response. The seemingly endless rows of modern, uniform houses represent the impact of the dramatic rise in homebuilding in the interwar period, especially the construction of public housing. The railway tracks that bisect the image signal the expanded train service for both commuters and those traveling longer distances, thus altering the landscape and allowing people to move beyond the city. Fookes’s color linocut Poplar Trees and Telegraph Poles shows the impact of related technologies, such as the telephone and telegraph,that accompanied these new developed environments.

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Title: Mining Town, No. 2
Artist: Ursula Fookes (British, 1906–1991)
Date: ca. 1932
Medium: Linocut on Japanese paper
Dimensions: Sheet: 8 1/2 × 9 1/2 in. (21.6 × 24.1 cm)
Image: 7 1/2 × 8 1/2 in. (19.1 × 21.6 cm)
Classification: Prints
Credit Line: Purchase, Leslie and Johanna Garfield Gift, Lila Acheson Wallace, Charles and Jessie Price, and David T Schiff Gifts, The Elisha Whittelsey Collection, The Elisha Whittelsey Fund, Dolores Valvidia Hurlburt Bequest, PECO Foundation and Friends of Drawings and Prints Gifts, and funds from various donors, 2019
Object Number: 2019.592.118
Curatorial Department: Drawings and Prints

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