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Cleveland Series: Ontario Street, Lower Track Level Grading, August 1928

1929

Louis Conrad Rosenberg

(American, 1890–1983)
Culture
America
Medium
drypoint
Measurements
Sheet: 27.3 x 41 cm (10 3/4 x 16 1/8 in.); Platemark: 19.4 x 29 cm (7 5/8 x 11 7/16 in.)
Credit Line
Bequest of John Bonebrake 2012.284
Copyright
Copyright
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Location
Not on view
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Description

The Van Sweringen brothers, who helped finance a new railroad terminal in Cleveland, commissioned Rosenberg, an etcher and architect, to make a series of prints showing the existing sites, demolitions, and new structures connected to the project. The result was 22 plates executed between December 5, 1928, and November 7, 1930. Rosenberg was working on a 23rd plate, but it was never completed because the Van Sweringens decided that no additional prints were needed.
A horizontally oriented drypoint print in black ink on cream paper depicts a deep construction site filled with timber bracing. Small figures stand near large buckets at the lower left. The complex network of wooden beams recedes toward tall rectangular buildings in the background. Fine, sharp lines and heavy cross-hatching create deep shadows among the scaffolding and excavated earth. A signature appears in the lower right margin.

Cleveland Series: Ontario Street, Lower Track Level Grading, August 1928

1929

Louis Conrad Rosenberg

(American, 1890–1983)
America

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