Black conté crayon
Signed in brown crayon, lower left
Provenance: Estate of the artist
Sheet size: 7 1/2 X 9 3/5 inches
Frame size: 16 ¾ X 18 ¾ inches
Exhibited: Drawings
and Watercolors by Moses Soyer: From Social Realism to Romantic Realism,
Ridderhof Martin Gallery, University of Mary Washington, Fredericksburg,
Virginia, January-March, 2002
A common Sunday outing for the poor of Lower Manhattan
during the depression was going to get a breath of fresh air on one of the
piers on the Hudson River. Soyer, drawing
materials in hand, often strolled over to the Hudson,
just a few blocks from his apartment in Greenwich Village.
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