RAPHAEL SOYER
East Side Street.
Lithograph, 1928. 200x255 mm; 7¾x10 inches. Edition of 50. Signed and titled "East Street" in pencil, lower margin. A very good impression of this scarce, early lithograph. Cole 13.Soyer was born in Russia and immigrated to New York at the age of twelve. He studied at Cooper Union, the National Academy of Design and with Guy Pène du Bois (1884-1958) at the Art Students League. He is known as a Social Realist, depicting the daily struggles of those living in New York City. His chosen subject matter became especially poignant at the onset of the Great Depression, and, after he began to exhibit his work in the late 1920s, he cemented his reputation among the top American realist artists of the 20th century.