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| Anonymous Dutch Forger Laborers with Wheel-Barrow late 19th century drawing (attempted forgery of Vincent van Gogh) Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, Rotterdam |
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| Robert von Neumann Hauling the Net ca. 1940 lithograph Wichita Art Museum, Kansas |
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| Doris Ulmann Workers with Tools ca. 1930 platinum print Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington DC |
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| Jerome Liebling Grain Worker 1950 gelatin silver print Whitney Museum of American Art, New York |
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| Sid Grossman Illinois 1940 gelatin silver print Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington DC |
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| Sid Grossman Dinner Time - Hard Work makes for Hearty Appetites - Edwardsville, Illinois ca. 1945 gelatin silver print Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington DC |
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| Adolph Treidler For Every Fighter a Woman Worker 1918 lithograph (poster) Delaware Art Museum, Wilmington |
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| Hugo Gellert New Pioneer 1931 lithograph (magazine cover) Archives of American Art, Washington DC |
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| Hugo Gellert Victory Calendar 1942 lithograph and letterpress Archives of American Art, Washington DC |
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| Hugo Gellert March for Peace - May 1st 1952 lithograph (pamphlet issued by United Labor and People's Committee for May Day) Archives of American Art, Washington DC |
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| Harry Gottlieb Going to Work ca. 1939 screenprint Amon Carter Museum of American Art, Fort Worth, Texas |
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| Harry Gottlieb Industrial Plant 1937 screenprint Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington DC |
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| Harry Gottlieb The Next Shift 1940 screenprint Amon Carter Museum of American Art, Fort Worth, Texas |
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| Harry Gottlieb Bootleg Mining ca. 1937-39 lithograph Amon Carter Museum of American Art, Fort Worth, Texas |
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| Harry Gottlieb Slaughterhouse - Kinston, North Carolina 1927 gouache on paper Amon Carter Museum of American Art, Fort Worth, Texas |
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| Charles Nègre Vincennes Imperial Asylum Kitchen 1859 albumen silver print National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa |
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| Charles Nègre Workman wielding Hammer ca. 1850 collodion print from salted paper negative National Museum of American History, Washington DC |
from Medea
The rites deriv'd from ancient days
With thoughtless reverence we praise,
The rites that taught us to combine
The joys of music and of wine,
And bad the feast, and song, and bowl,
O'erfill the saturated soul;
But n'er the Flute or Lyre apply'd
To cheer despair, or soften pride,
Nor call'd them to the gloomy cells
Where Want repines, and Vengeance swells,
Where Hate sits musing to betray
And Murder meditates his prey.
To dens of guilt and shades of care
Ye sons of Melody repair,
Nor deign the festive dome to cloy
With superfluities of joy.
Ah, little needs the Minstrel's pow'r
To speed the light convivial hour;
The board with varied plenty crown'd
May spare the luxuries of sound.
– Euripides (485-406 BC), translated by Samuel Johnson (1782)