Tenement, Ridgefield, Connecticut
PrintmakerMade by
Gottlob L. Briem
American, 1899 - 1972
Dateabout 1930
MediumEtching on wove paper
DimensionsPrimary Dimensions (image height x width): 5 x 11 1/4in. (12.7 x 28.6cm)
Platemark (height x width): 5 x 11 1/4in. (12.7 x 28.6cm)
Sheet (height x width): 7 1/4 x 13 3/4in. (18.4 x 34.9cm)
Platemark (height x width): 5 x 11 1/4in. (12.7 x 28.6cm)
Sheet (height x width): 7 1/4 x 13 3/4in. (18.4 x 34.9cm)
ClassificationsGraphics
Credit LineThe Newman S. Hungerford Museum Fund
DescriptionDilapidated frame building has an exterior stairway leading to doors on the second story. There appears to be a washtub in the yard. A figure, possibly a boy, stands at the entrance to a shed or outhouse. Trees are in the background. A frame house is at the right.
Object number2000.1.0
MarkingsDealer's label on mat reads: "Gottlob L. Briem (German-American,20th century) / TENEMENT, RIDGEFIELD, CT., ca. 1930. Signed, titled and / inscribed in pencil. Briem came to the USA in 1927 and / exhibited at the Weyhe Gallery in the 1930s. He is listed in the directory of Fine Prints of the Year, 1932, referred / to in the text as a 'modernist,' and a long quote by him is / included."InscribedInscribed in pencil, lower left: "Tenement, Ridgefield CT to Mr. Wright G.L.B."On View
Not on view
