The Bruce & Barbara Feldacker Labor Art Collection

The Bruce & Barbara Feldacker Labor Art Collection

Artist

Title, Date, Edition

Medium

Date

Acquired

Comments

No.

D indicates donated to the Mercantile Library. (1981) indicates year artwork was made. (4/20) indicates print is #4 of 20 prints in that edition.

Adelman, Ida

Allen, James

Brazilian Builders (1933) (Edition of less than

25) D

Print ¨C Lithograph

4/1/1992

Print ¨C Etching

5/1/1991

Allison, Dan (Daniel

"Mom" (1992)

Mitchell)

Painting, oil on

canvass

Altman, David

Highway 64/40 Construction

Photograph

American Postal

Workers Union

"Jobs, Justice, Peace" D

Poster

Anderson, Daven

Cement Work (2010)

Work/paper,

watercolor

Andrea by Sadek

Physician (Surgeon)

Anri

Store Clerk

Anri Carving

Surgeon

Barnet, Will

Swing Shift (1980's)

Bassford, Wallace

"War Industry" (1943-44)

Work/paper,

Water color

Bauer, S.

Laborer, Casting Iron (ca. 1900)

Sculpture - Bronze

Well known 1930¡¯s artist, Born 1910

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Houston artist born in 1953. Primarily a print10/30/2006 maker. Signed and dated on back. Includes black

architectural frame

Current St. Louis photographer. Part of series of

photographs Altman made of construction workers

12/30/2008

on Highway 64 renovation work during 2008. Near

intersection of High. I -64 & I-170.

Mid-1990's Anniversary poster for the APWU

8/19/2010

76

Construct. Of SLAM Addition. Anderson is a

Naval Acad. Grad/submarine officer and busines

exec. now living in Stl. who has returned to his

earlier interest in painting --largely self-taught

Decorative art Label says "Made in Japan." Sadek is an

ca late 1940's

figurine- porcelain

American decorive arts company.

Decorative Art Butcher or Store Clerk. Anri is a well-known Italian

3/9/2009

woodcarving

woodcarving cooperative. See # 353

Decorative Art 3/14/2010 Well known Italian Carving Company. See # 336

Wood Carving

Born 1911. Preeminent1930's artist whose work

became more abstract in later years.This is a ca

1980's reprint (original plate)of the original etching

completed in the 1930's.Reprint was purportedly

Print 11/2/2008 reissued by Barnet in association with Associated

Etching/aquatint

American Artists (Sylvan Cole) and master printer

Stephen Sholinsky. (AAA reissued prints by a

number of 1930's artists in the 1980's in this

manner).

277

323

402

373

395

336

353

317

11/701

St. Louis born artist, grad. of Wash. U., worked on

Cape Cod, famous for portraits of society women

212

11/9/2003

Turn of 19/20 th Century Austrian Bronze. No info.

available on artist.

226

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Blow, Thomas R..

Title, Date, Edition

Medium

Laborers

Print - Lithograph

Date

Acquired

St. Louis Artist, born 1897, attended ST. L. School

of Fine Arts. Member of North Shore MA. Artists

Asso.

Cape Town SA wood carver, born in the

Democratic Republic of Congo. Purchased at his

booth at the Victoria & Albert Warerfront Craft

10/28/2011

Market in Cape Town during Feldacker Africa trip,

see # 412. See newspaper article about his work

in numbered file.

2/9/2009

Bongolomba, Roger Lawyer in Robes (2011)

Decorative Art Wood Carving

Brangwyn, Frank

Various titles

Print ¨C Photo

Reproduction

Brown, Dana

"Control Freak" (2004)

Work/paper

Watercolor

Brown, Dana

"Grinnell" (2004)

Painting, casein

5/30/05

Brown, Dana

"Midwest" (2004)

Painting, Casein

5/30/2005

Brown, Gene T.

"Incoming" (ca. 2001)

Print - screenprint

Comments

No.

335

419

5/1/1997

Photo reproductions of famous prints. Done from

Copper Plates c. Pre-WWI, includes portfolio folder

in German. Famous British etcher 1867-1956 ¨C

Did murals in MO Capital Building

165

5/30/2005

Contemporary Alabama water-colorist who has

won many awards. Paints urban/industrial

"precisionist" type scenes. Appeared in Clayton art

show

255

256

257

6/16/2001

Contemporary Iowa artist,born 1948. Purchased at

Westport Art Fair -signed on back

210

223

Bryan, Donald

"Fish Shack in Wanchese, N.C," (ca. 2003)

Painting, Oil on

canvas

6/5/2003

Bryan is a retired Air Force Colonel painting

professionally since the 1960's. Originally selftaught, he received formal training while stationed

in Germany. Served as mayor of Nags Head.

Paints everyday coastal life scenes.

Buchholz, Fred

¡°The Demolition Team¡± (1930¡¯s) 12X18

Work/Paper

Watercolor/ Pastel

6/14/1992

Artist well known for Theatre Murals. Active in

Society of Independent Artists. 1901-83

83

Byron, Judy

Building Service Group (early 1980's)

D.C. Artist ¨C primarily deals with group

themes/social issues. Master print for series done

for the SEIU.

7

D

Print ¨C Woodcut

5/87

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Artist

Title, Date, Edition

Medium

Date

Acquired

Cadmus, Paul

Waiting for Rehearsal (1984) (63/75)

Print - Etching

5/4/2012

Cantor, Laura

"Bombadier Current Collector" (2002)

Work/paper

drawing-pastel

4/7/2006

Cantor, Laura

"Myra, Car Inspector" (1998)

Painting, oil on

board

Cantor, Laura

"Reggie Cleaning the Batteries" (2005)

Work/paperDrawing. Charcoal

Cantor, Laura

"Tony Changing a Trip Lock" (2005)

Cardona, Jose

Coal Miner (early 20th century)

Carter, Carol

¡°Celery Workers¡±

Work/Paper

Watercolor

9/1/1997

Catlett, Elizabeth

Organize the Unorganized (1946) (18/20) D

Print ¨C Linocut

4/1/1992

Work/paperDrawing Charcoal

Sculpture ¨C

Bronze

Sub.

No.

420

A

4/7/2006

267

B

4/7/2006

267

C

4/7/2006

267

D

8/21/89

6/12/2007

Chicago Federation

of Labor

Mid-2000's

Poster

Davenport #56. Prominent NYC artist (1904-2000).

Famous for 1930's mural "The Fleet's In"which was

banned from Navy Hdq. because of homosexual

overtones Also did mural commemorating Herrin,

IL. mine strike in which strikers attacked

replacements. Cadmus' sister was married to the

President of the NYC Ballet, which allowed him

free access to backstage dressing rooms and

rehearsal halls from which he took many subjects

for his artwork.

Cantor (born ca 1950) is a NY artist who works as

a subway inspector. These items were part of her

show entitled "Upon Closer Inspection" at the New

York Transit Museum in 2006. "Bombadier" was

the signature piece for show publicity (see postcard

in file)

No.

267

Cheeseman, George "Kate at the Ocracoke (N.C.) Fish Market" (ca. Work/paper

R.

2006)

watercolor

"Our First Century" (1996) D

Comments

Late 19/Early 20th Century Spanish Artist ¨C worked

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in Paris.

Workers Planting Celery, part of her series on life

in Belle Glade, FL. St. Louis artist born 1955 ¨C

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Signed on back.

Pre-eminent African-American Artist ¨C most of

career in Mexico, from ¡°I Am the Black Woman¡±

72

series. Died April 2012 at age 96

Cheeseman, born in 1951, is a retired St. Louis

area high school art instructor who has retired to

the Outer Banks of North Carolina where he has

become locally prominent in the art community. He

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won prize for designing the official poster for the

first Outer Banks marathon run (BSF has copy).

Painting depicts local fisherman; Kate is

Cheeseman's daughter.

Gift from Artist Kathleen Farrell (see #) who

frequently does illustrations for the Chicago Fed.

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Artist

Title, Date, Edition

Medium

Clark, Tom

"Blacksmith"

Sculpture - pecan

shells (crushed)

Cloud, Wes

Lest We Forget (ca. 1983)

Print ¨C Lithograph

Date

Acquired

6/12/2007

6/5/1983

Comments

Clark born in 1928; Professor at Davidson College

teaching religion and art, lead sculpture at Cairn

Studio; part of series on makers of America. Uses

a pecan based resin.

Dramatizing event of the Patco Strike. Cloud was

one of the strikers.

Photograph of Meghan McKinsey, a carpenter for

Tarlton Corp.of St. Louis. Photograph included in a

2009 calendar of female construction workers

published by Missouri Women in the Trades

12/30/2008 (MOWIT). See copy of calendar signed by Coblitz

in file #319.Coblitz is a retired visual engineer for

Boeing now a full-time photographer. He is a freelance artist whose work has been displayed in

many local exhibits.

No.

292

26

Coblitz, David

Female Carpenter (2009)

Photograph, Color

Coe, Sue

Veal Skinner (1991) (10/24)

Print ¨C Lithograph

4/4/1992

Part of Packing house series, her work concerns

current social/labor issues.

74

Cohn, Max Arthur

"The Docks" (1932)

Work/paper

watercolor 15 x20'

5/18/2007

Well known NY depression era artist, 1903-1998

286

Cole, Michael

Well Used Tools (Pipe Wrench) (2008)

Photograph

9/7/2008

Covey, Rosemary

Felt

Metalworkers (320/350)

Print ¨C Wood

Engraving

1/29/1997

Craig, Helen

"Picture Book of Ships"

Book illustration

7/23/2002

Creston, Rene-Yves Oystermen Series (late 1930's) D

Criner, Charles

"Fish Cleaner" (2000) (4/4)

Work/paper lithograph

Print ¨C Lithograph

Current Hannibal Missouri artist. Purchased at

Clayton Art Fair

D.C. area artist, commissioned by International

Metal Trades Confederation for its 100th

Anniversary .

Book published in 1932 by Mcmillan Press, 64

pages, Note: this does not appear to be the current

well known illustrator by the same name, as she

would be a younger person.

319

312

162

218

French artist and ethnologist,1898-1964. According

to info received by Feldacker (see letter in file)

Creston did a series of paintings pertaining to the

early 2000's Brittany Coast oyster industry which hung in a Paris 393

seafood restaurant. They were so enjoyed by

patrons that the retaurant reproduced copies, such

as these litho's, as souveneirs.

2/26/2001

Houston artist, born 1945. Student of and printer

for John Biggers, scene is port of Galveston. See

also # 265

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