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
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creation date:			1937
creation date earliest:		1937
creation date latest:		1937
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creditline:			Carole W. and Charles B. Rosenblatt Endowment Fund
copyright:			© Will Barnet

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culture:	America, 20th century
technique:	etching
department:	Prints
collection:	PR - Etching
type:		Print
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CREATORS

* Will Barnet (American, 1911–2012)  - artist

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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.)
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inscriptions:

	inscription:	Inscribed in graphite: “Swing Shift”, lower left
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	inscription:	signed Will Barnett, lower right
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CURRENT EXHIBITIONS

	title:		Ashcan School Prints and the American City, 1900-1940
	opening date:   2021-07-18T04:00:00
	<i>Ashcan School Prints and the American City, 1900-1940</i>. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (July 18-December 26, 2021).

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LEGACY EXHIBITIONS

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PROVENANCE

	Private Collection, Washington, D.C.
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	(William P. Carl Fine Prints, Durham, NC)
	date: ?-2020
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	The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
	date: December 7, 2020
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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.
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