Trash Collectors, 1900
Edgar Chahineexpand_more
Etching and drypointexpand_more
Bequest of Harry Drakeexpand_more 2013.35.669
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In the faint light of early morning, workers collect garbage to haul away. Edgar Chahine’s murky image presents these laborers as they may have been perceived by much of the general public, faceless and barely seen.
Details
- Title
- Trash Collectors
- Artist Life
- (born Austria), Vienna 1874–Paris 1947
- Role
- Artist
- Accession Number
- 2013.35.669
- Provenance
- [Childs Gallery, Boston, until 1996; sold in April for PROO, to Drake]; Harry Drake, St. Paul (1996-d. 2012; bequeathed to MIA)
- Catalogue Raisonne
- Tabanelli 55 ii/ii Weisberg/Smithsonian 15
- Curator Approved
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