Straining in Vain

About this artwork

Status

Currently Off View

Department

Prints and Drawings

Artist

Nikolai F. Denisovskii

Title

Straining in Vain

Place

Soviet Union (Object made in)

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1944

Medium

Stencil

Inscriptions

Despite the fact that Germany’s human resources are exhausted, the Fascists keep announcing new “super-total” mobilizations. Plucked clean from all ends There sits the blood-drinking vulture. But no matter how hard he tries, He cannot get his chicks to hatch.

Dimensions

147.4 × 112.3 cm (58 1/16 × 44 1/4 in.)

Credit Line

Gift of the USSR Society for Cultural Relations with Foreign Countries

Reference Number

2010.79

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