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Street Scene
Arthur Zaidenberg

wood engraving on paper, 1937

Arthur Zaidenberg worked for the New York City WPA graphics program. He later became a drawing teacher at New York University. He wrote a series of how-to books on art techniques and a Dictionary of Drawing.

This wood engraving contains lots of details of life in a New York neighborhood of the 1930s.

Collection of the Illinois State Museum
photograph by Gary Andrashko
ISM Accession #: 1983.61.445

<i>Street Scene</i><br>Arthur Zaidenberg

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