Pouring Steel
Object NameLithograph
Artist / Maker
Minnetta Good
(American, 1895 - 1946)
Date1935
OriginUnited States
MediumLithograph on paper
Dimensions12 1/4 x 15 in. (31.1 x 38.1 cm)
ClassificationsPrints and Printing Plates
Credit LineTransfer from the Art and Design Department, Iowa State University. In the permanent collection, Brunnier Art Museum, University Museums, Iowa State University, Ames, Iowa.
Object numberUM82.225
Status
Not on viewCollections
CultureAmerican
Label TextFrom the University Museums Collections Handbook, vol. 2, 2025:
In 1934, Reeves Lewenthal started the Associated American Artists (AAA) with the idea to provide access to high quality art for middle- and upper-class Americans. Prints were mass-marketed to the public and could be purchased for $5. Lewenthal collaborated with well-known artists such as Grant Wood and Thomas Hart Benton, but also many young and unknown artists. He chose to focus the subject of the prints on images depicting everyday life, industry, and the landscape of America, in line with the American Scene Movement and Regionalism style popular at the time.
Minnetta Good was born in New York City, where she also studied art, and lived in nearby New Jersey as an adult. It is fitting, due to her life within a major metropolis, that she chose to examine an industrial subject for some of the prints she made with AAA. Her dynamic use of shading highlights the power and heat created in the process of pouring molten metal into molds. The making of steel was considered an important American industry, representative of the power and capability of American manufacturing.
PeriodDepression Era
SignedMinnetta Good in pencil, lower right
Object Titles[com.gallerysystems.emuseum.core.entities.ObjectTitle@a1ab]
Locations
- (not entered) Iowa State University, Brunnier Main Storage
