Akron Art Museum issued the following announcement on Oct 22.
What modern luxuries would be difficult for you to give up? Fousek shows a gas station, new on the American landscape when this print was made and cars were still a luxury.
Gas Station
Frank Daniel Fousek
(Cleveland, Ohio, 1913 - 1979, St. Louis, Missouri)
c. 1937
Etching on paper
7 1/4 in. x 9 in. (18.42 cm x 22.86 cm)
Gift of the Art Department, Akron Board of Education, Courtesy of the Fine Arts Program, Public Buildings Service, U.S. General Services Administration Commissioned through the New Deal art projects
1948.25
Original source can be found here.
Source: Akron Art Museum
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