Progress (Road in a Mining Town)
Ursula Fookes
ca. 1930 · Color linocut · Drawings and Prints
Here, Fookes depicts the spread of industry into the countryside and the towns built in response. The seemingly endless rows of modern, uniform houses represent the impact of the dramatic rise in homebuilding in the interwar period, especially the construction of public housing. Fookes’s color linocut Poplar Trees and Telegraph Poles shows the impact of related technologies, such as the telephone and telegraph,that accompanied these new developed environments.
- Artist
- Ursula Fookes
- Date
- ca. 1930
- Medium
- Color linocut
- Department
- Drawings and Prints
- Credit line
- Purchase, Leslie and Johanna Garfield Gift, Lila Acheson Wallace, Charles and Jessie Price, and David T Schiff Gifts, The Elisha Whittelsey Collection, The Elisha Whittelsey Fund, Dolores Valvidia Hurlburt Bequest, Peco Foundation and Friends of Drawings and Prints Gifts, and funds from various donors, 2019