A giant figure looms over struggling people with upraised arms in a chaotic black-and-white scene.

Prints

Toward a Newer Life

c. 1937–1938

Medium
Linoleum cut on paper mounted on paper
Dimensions
Sheet: 10 3/4 × 8 1/2 in. (27.3 × 21.6 cm) Image: 10 × 8 in. (25.4 × 20.3 cm) Mount: 15 × 12 in. (38.1 × 30.5 cm)
Accession number
2001.12.2
Acquired
2001
Credit line
Purchase, with funds from the Print Committee
Edition
Ed. 200
Publication
Printed by Precision Press; published by L.M. Stein
Department
collection

About this work

Bernece Berkman, Toward a Newer Life, c. 1937–1938. Linoleum cut on paper mounted on paper, sheet: 10 3/4 × 8 1/2 in. (27.3 × 21.6 cm) Image: 10 × 8 in. (25.4 × 20.3 cm) Mount: 15 × 12 in. (38.1 × 30.5 cm). Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; purchase, with funds from the Print Committee 2001.12.2