Straining in Vain

Prints and Drawings

November 23, 1944

Nikolai Fedorovich Denisovskii
(Born Moscow, 1901; died Moscow, 1981)
Mikhail Maksimovich Vershinin
(Born 1923; died 1986)

Status: Currently Off View
Department: Prints and Drawings

Artist: Nikolai F. Denisovskii
Title: Straining in Vain
Place: Soviet Union (Object made in)
Date Dates are not always precisely known, but the Art Institute strives to present this information as consistently and legibly as possible. Dates may be represented as a range that spans decades, centuries, dynasties, or periods and may include qualifiers such as c. (circa) or BCE.: 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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