cartoonish figures standing with Niagara Falls behind them; from left: man in a suit and hat, looking at a camera; heavyset woman wearing a hat with flowers pointing at waterfall with her PL hand and holding the shoulder of a boy with an ice cream cone with her PR hand; couple holding hands--man wearing suit and hat and woman with large nose wearing short-sleeved dress and hat

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Tourists at Niagara Falls, c. 1932

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Painter and printmaker Russell Limbach worked as the Art Editor of The New Masses, a publication tied to the Communist Party, and subsequently organized the Graphics Division of the WPA Arts Project in New York. Many of his prints are witty reflections on middle-class American life. In Tourists at Niagra Falls, no one looks at the natural wonder before them. An amateur photographer’s camera seems uncooperative at the big moment. A woman urges her grandson to look, but he seems more interested in the couple who seem a little less than loving.

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Title
Tourists at Niagara Falls
Artist Life
1904–1971
Role
Artist
Accession Number
2018.96.4
Provenance
John E. Andrus III (Wayzata, Minn.); Julie Andrus (Minneapolis, Minn.)
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cartoonish figures standing with Niagara Falls behind them; from left: man in a suit and hat, looking at a camera; heavyset woman wearing a hat with flowers pointing at waterfall with her PL hand and holding the shoulder of a boy with an ice cream cone with her PR hand; couple holding hands--man wearing suit and hat and woman with large nose wearing short-sleeved dress and hat

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