Ferry Slip (1927): Art, History and Details

Ferry Slip (1927) is in the Cleveland Museum of Art collection. The museum's creator attribution is Edwin Kaufman (American, 1906–1939).

The work and its context

The museum's open-access catalogue describes the work:

Edwin Kaufman’s interest in the industrial, working-class areas of New York began at a young age, as shown in this etching made when he was around 21 years old. The ferry slip—a specialized dock for loading cargo and passengers onto a transport boat—depicted here could possibly be at the Battery Maritime Building at the southern point of Manhattan. Instead of featuring the building’s elaborate architecture, Kaufman directs the viewer’s attention outward toward factory-rich Brooklyn, highlighting the workers and heavy equipment.

Object facts

• Title: Ferry Slip
• Date: 1927
• Creator attribution: Edwin Kaufman (American, 1906–1939)
• Culture: America, Ohio, Cleveland
• Type: Print
• Technique: etching
• Collection: PR - Etching
• Department: Prints
• Accession number: 1928.91

A detail from the museum

This print won an honorable mention in etching at the Cleveland Museum of Art’s 1928 May Show.

Collection credit

Gift of The Print Club of Cleveland

Further reading listed by the museum

• “Front Matter.” The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art 15, no. 5 (1928): 118.
• Edwin Kaufman Entry Card to 1928 May Show. Cleveland Museum of Art May Show Records, Cleveland Museum of Art Archives.

View the collection record

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