Selma Cohen Bluestein (1914-1985) mixed media etching with embossing, and aquatint on newspaper printed heavy paper (not newsprint). Pencil signed, titled and marked as an artist's proof. Selma and her husband Abe were active in the anarchist movement in the U.S. in the 20th century. Abe worked as a reporter for the Freie Arveiter Stimme, a Yiddish anarchist publication in New York, and Selma was an artist and worked with the WPA. They married as grandparents to secure their right to Social Security. She died in Croton-on-Hudson in 1985.
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