Gobbers, Git a Bag!!!

Prints and Drawings

1941

Bernece Berkman (American, 1911-1988)
published by the Works Progress Administration

Bernece Berkman was a committed member of the Artists Union, founded in New York during the Great Depression. Her activism in part led her to depict the Chicago urban environment, focusing on the symbiotic relationship between artists and laborers. Berkman attended SAIC in 1927–28, and later she studied privately with Todros Geller and Rudolph Weisenborn. Gobbers, Git a Bag!!! is an unusually colorful screenprint depicting a peanut vendor in a park. Printed for the WPA, this work is one of many prints Berkman executed during this time.

Status: Currently Off View
Department: Prints and Drawings

Artist: Bernece Berkman
Title: Gobbers, Git a Bag!!!
Place: United States (Artist's nationality)
Date Dates are not always precisely known, but the Art Institute strives to present this information as consistently and legibly as possible. Dates may be represented as a range that spans decades, centuries, dynasties, or periods and may include qualifiers such as c. (circa) or BCE.: 1941
Medium: Color screenprint on off-white wove paper
Dimensions: Image: 41.4 × 60.3 cm (16 5/16 × 23 3/4 in.); Sheet: 50.5 × 65.9 cm (19 15/16 × 26 in.)
Credit Line: The Art Institute of Chicago, Works Progress Administration Allocation
Reference Number: 1943.1983

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