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Charlotte Rothstein - Major Issues at the Circus

Major Issues at the Circus

Charlotte Rothstein's original original silk-screen (serigraph), "Major Issues at the Circus" is printed In color upon wove paper with full margins as published in an edition of only twenty impressions in Chicago in 1941. This impression is signed, titled and numbered by the artist in pencil along the lower margin. Major Issues at the Circus depicts two elephants possibly helping to set up the circus tent. It is a prime example of both the work of Charlotte Rothstein and of the art of the early American Silk-screen.
 
Title: Major Issues at the Circus
Artist: Rothstein, Charlotte (Chicago, born, 1912)
Date: 1941
Medium: Original Silk-Screen (Serigraph)
Note: Charlotte Rothstein: An Illinois painter and printmaker, Charlotte Rothstein studied at the Art Institute of Chicago, under Todros Geller and Rudolph Weisenborn. She began exhibiting her art during the years of the Great Depression and, like most American artists at this time, found most of her work under the support of the Works Progress Administration. Instituted by President Roosevelt in 1935, the W.P.A. actively assisted artists in major cities until it ceased its administration in 1943.
  Rothstein's art gained a national reputation in 1939 when several of her paintings were exhibited at the World's Fair in New York. She later participated in San Francisco's Golden Gate Exposition and was a frequent contributor to the annual exhibitions at the Chicago Institute of Art. Charlotte Rothstein was a full member of the Chicago Society of Artists, the United American Artists and the American Art Congress.
  Not the least of Rothstein's accomplishments was her involvement in the early beginnings of silk-screen prints. Although the medium of the silk-screen predated the Depression era, it wasn't used for anything but commercial purposes until the end of the 1930's. At this time such now famous artists as Guy Maccoy, Harry Gottlieb and Elizabeth Olds began to experiment with the aesthetic possibilities of the medium. In May of 1940 the Silk Screen Group was founded in New York City and was the first association of its kind in the United States.
Edition: Limited edition of twenty impressions, numbered 17/20. Bearing the date of 1941, Major Issues at the Circus is a very early American silk-screen print. Thus, apart from its wonderful artistic elements, it is important historically. Early silk-screen prints, such as this example, were usually printed in small editions and are therefore very difficult to acquire.
Size: 12 X 17 (Sizes in inches are approximate, height preceding width of plate-mark or image.)
  Matted with 100% Archival Materials
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  Major Issues at The Circus Matted Original Silkscreen by harlotte Rothstein
   
Condition: Printed upon wove paper with full margins as published in Chicago in 1941. Signed, titled and numbered '17/20' by the artist in pencil along the lower margin. A finely printed, full colour impression and in excellent condition throughout. Major Issues at the Circus is a prime example of both the work of Charlotte Rothstein and of the art of the early American Silk-screen.
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Original Silk-Screen (Serigraph) by the American artist, Charlotte Rothstein.

Major Issues at The Circus Original Silkscreen by the American artist Charlotte Rothstein
Major Issues at the Circus

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American Art of the Depression Era dating from 1930 to 1945 (Art of The Print / www.artoftheprint.com - Artist Index: A to E): The following four pages contain a listing of original American etchings, lithographs woodcuts, serigraphs, watercolors, drawings, linocuts and wood engravings from the Depression decade of the 1930’s and into the early 1940’s. Despite the dire economic times publishers of original prints continued to survive and successfully raise revenue for the artists as well as making original art affordable during the Great Depression years.

Listed on the first page of the 'American Art of the Depression Era' directory are over fifty original works of art created by American artists such as, George Elbert Burr, his etchings, Little Canyon, Arizona and Morraine Park were both commissioned by The Print Connoisseur, while his Evening, Arizona was published by The Brooklyn Society of Etchers. Also, works such as, Kenneth Ballantyne's original linocut, Wood Nymphs appeared in The Colophon in New York in 1931. George Elmer Browne’s The Fishing Fleet and Adolf Dehn’s Threshing Near Kilkenny published by the Associated American Artists (A.A.A.), are other outstanding examples of early prints from this decade.

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American Art of the Depression Era dating from 1930 to 1945 (Art of The Print / www.artoftheprint.com - Artist Index: F to J): The second page of this directory also contains a list of over fifty original works of art created during the Great Depression years by American artists. One of the more interesting aspects of art of the Depression is how seldom the actual misery and privation of the decade is depicted. On this page, for example, only Hugo Gellert’s original lithograph, Primary Accumulation, protests the contemporary state of affairs. The visual arts (including films) set out to divert and entertain. Perhaps for artists an almost sure recipe for failure would have been to remind the average man of his sorry condition.

On the contrary most areas of the entertainment industries thrived. The art of Kenneth Hartwell is an excellent example. His lithographs of circus acrobats, jugglers and clowns and of the music, dancing and comedy of the Burlesque shows are worlds into themselves. Gazing at his imagery the viewer is granted a temporary reprieve from the real world.

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American Art of the Depression Era dating from 1930 to 1945 (Art of The Print / www.artoftheprint.com - Artist Index: K to P): Even in a Depression the sense of a continuation of normal activities persists. In Joseph Margulies, New England Granny the subject does exactly what grannies do best as she contentedly sits in her rocker, sewing. Philip Parsons depicts a joyful family reunion in Home for Christmas and Henry Pitz depicts the dignity of work in his monumental art deco style in both Maine Fisherman and Man Against the Sky.

Purely by alphabetical accident, page 3 also contains two of my favorite night scenes: Alan Lewis’ delightful color woodcut, Swinging the Gate and Martin Lewis’ renowned Night in New York. This famous etching was published by the Chicago Society of Etchers in 1932.

04.- American Art of the Depression Era - Page 4 (Artist Index (R to Z)

American Art of the Depression Era dating from 1930 to 1945 (Art of The Print / www.artoftheprint.com - Artist Index: R to Z): Like the previous three pages, page four of this directory provides a full variety of Depression era themes and techniques. Stark realities of the times are provided by W. P. Robinson (Abandoned Farm) and Isadore Weiner (Gardening). In contrast are pieces like John W. Winkler’s playful landscape, Rae Lakes, California and the fine animal studies by Clarence Zuelch.

Two magnificent drypoints by Albert Sterner -- Meditation and The Promised Land – will also be found listed on that page. In particular, The Promised Land seems like a potent symbol of man’s journey through the decade of the Great Depression. In total, there are over two hundred works of original art created by American artists from the Depression decade of the 1930’s and into the early 1940’s listed in the 'American Art of the Depression' directory.


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