id: 401106 accession number: 2020.286 share license status: Copyrighted url: https://clevelandart.org/art/2020.286 updated: 2023-05-10 11:10:09.179000 Swing Shift, 1937. Will Barnet (American, 1911–2012). Etching; plate: 24.8 x 27 cm (9 3/4 x 10 5/8 in.); sheet: 31.9 x 35 cm (12 9/16 x 13 3/4 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Carole W. and Charles B. Rosenblatt Endowment Fund 2020.286 © Will Barnet title: Swing Shift title in original language: series: series in original language: creation date: 1937 creation date earliest: 1937 creation date latest: 1937 current location: creditline: Carole W. and Charles B. Rosenblatt Endowment Fund copyright: © Will Barnet --- culture: America, 20th century technique: etching department: Prints collection: PR - Etching type: Print find spot: catalogue raisonne: --- CREATORS * Will Barnet (American, 1911–2012) - artist --- measurements: Plate: 24.8 x 27 cm (9 3/4 x 10 5/8 in.); Sheet: 31.9 x 35 cm (12 9/16 x 13 3/4 in.) state of the work: edition of the work: support materials: inscriptions: inscription: Inscribed in graphite: “Swing Shift”, lower left translation: remark: inscription: signed Will Barnett, lower right translation: remark: --- CURRENT EXHIBITIONS title: Ashcan School Prints and the American City, 1900-1940 opening date: 2021-07-18T04:00:00 Ashcan School Prints and the American City, 1900-1940. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (July 18-December 26, 2021). --- LEGACY EXHIBITIONS --- PROVENANCE Private Collection, Washington, D.C. date: footnotes: citations: (William P. Carl Fine Prints, Durham, NC) date: ?-2020 footnotes: citations: The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH date: December 7, 2020 footnotes: citations: --- fun fact: While the thriving garment industry in early 20th-century New York City had once been staffed by immigrants from European countries, after World War I, Blacks migrating from the American South began to take what was often the lowest paid work in the city. digital description: The furnishings in this room suggest that this man works in a domestic space, likely one of the thousands of tenements where recent migrants to the city worked in contract garment shops that doubled as living quarters. The garment industry in New York City had once been staffed primarily by immigrants from European countries, but after World War I, Black people from the American South began to take what was often the lowest-paid work in the city. wall description: The furnishings in this room suggest that this man works in a domestic space, likely one of the thousands of tenements where recent migrants to the city worked in contract garment shops that doubled as living quarters. The garment industry in New York City had once been staffed primarily by immigrants from European countries, but after World War I, Black people from the American South began to take what was often the lowest-paid work in the city. --- RELATED WORKS --- CITATIONS --- IMAGES