ABRAHAM JACOBS     (Active Cleveland 1930-7)

aquatint,     1937

8 3/8 x 5 1/2."

$650.

Stamped "Federal Art Project No. 1" and with FAP label. Faint horizontal crease across lower bottom of image. The Cleveland Public Library has many of his prints and says: "Abraham Jacobs, a painter and printmaker, was active in Cleveland from about 1930 to 1937, but whose artistic career remains largely unknown. Jacobs' works exhibit a passionate concern for the downtrodden." Illustrated in "Covering History: Revisiting Federal Art in Cleveland 1933Ð43" at the Cleveland Artists Foundation, September 8ÐNovember 25, 2006.