Railroaders
Mitchell Siporin
1939–1940
- Medium
- Color lithograph on off-white wove paper laminate
- Dimensions
- Image: 56 × 39.5 cm (22 1/16 × 15 9/16 in.); Sheet: 73.7 × 58.2 cm (29 1/16 × 22 15/16 in.)
- Genre
- lithograph
- Museum
- Art Institute of Chicago
Tags
printprints and drawingpaper (fiber product)lithograph
About
Siporin studied at SAIC and with Todros Geller in the 1920s. In his art he frequently focused on the disenfranchised; he was also a political activist and a member of the Chicago John Reed Club. In this print created for the WPA, Siporin depicted a group of three railroad workers, a reflection of his interest in workers’ rights. Siporin was also a noted WPA muralist, painting the mural in Chicago’s Lane Tech High School.
