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Flash Gordon was a comic-strip hero dating to 1934, created by King Features to compete with the successful Buck Rogers series. It ran until 2003 under various artists, for our purposes including Emanuel (Mac) Raboy between 1948 and his death in…

In a small, virtually unfurnished shack three people receive the titular sharecropper—two women and an elderly man, perhaps his father. Raboy’s possible allusion to the Prodigal Son’s return, however, is a sad moment: highlighted at the center of…

Emanuel (Mac) Raboy began his early professional life working in the Federal Art Project's Graphic Art Division, spanning the second half of the 1930s. His high-contrast wood engravings, dramatically composed subjects, expressive bodies, and social…

New for Old is a color lithograph, showing buildings on a street and a crane-like machine. There are what looks like building materials next to the machine. The buildings’ proportions feel slightly off, just enough where they seem to bend a little.…

About the ArtistLeonard Pytlak (1910–1998) was an American serigrapher, lithographer, painter, teacher, and lecturer born in Newark, New Jersey. He studied at the Newark School of Fine and Industrial Art before continuing his education at the Art…

Uptown depicts an urban street scene dominated by an elevated railway structure that extends diagonally across the composition. The green metal platform is supported by vertical columns and railings, forming a geometric framework above the street. A…

A line of children lay in a row receiving treatment for tuberculosis. They are horizontal and outside, which was a part of the Brehmer method of treatment.

A photograph of Dr. Edward Livingston Trudeau (1848-1915) posing during wintertime outside his Saranac Lake Sanatorium.

Poet Janine Pommy Vega facilitated dozens of writing workshops during her time with Creative Artists Migrant Program Services (CAMPS), whether located in farm labor camps or other sites where migrant workers could access. This session was held at the…

A gray sky overlooks the main street of a small mountain town, rendered by Prestipino with flat shapes and minimal shading. The unrealistic proportions and perspective in the painting give the image a visual appearance that evokes American folk art,…