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The Brick Maker
The Brick Maker
The Brick Maker

The Brick Maker

Artist (American, 1897 - 1966)
Date1931
Mediumlithograph
DimensionsImage: 15 5/8 × 15 3/4 in. (39.7 × 40 cm)
Support: 16 × 20 in. (40.6 × 50.8 cm)
Mat: 16 × 20 in. (40.6 × 50.8 cm)
ClassificationsGraphic
Credit LineGift of Helen Greene Blumenschein, 1964
Object number1659.23G
DescriptionA man with his back to the viewer is wearing a protective hat, work clothes, and an apron while shoveling earth into a rectangular mold. There are stacks of dried adobe bricks scattered throughout the image, with a large mound at center left. There are two water pails at the lower right corner.
Text Entries

The print was previously titled, "Making Adobes" on TMS.

Upon further reasearch, it was found that the actual title is "The Brick Maker"

In his Modernist print Making Adobes, Kenneth Miller Adams illustrates the process of making adobe bricks. The central figure uses a spade to shovel the sandy earth, seen in the jagged piles behind him, into the rectangular wooden brick mold. Once the earth is packed tightly into the wooden mold, it is left to bake in the sun and transform into an adobe brick, which Adams represents as the rectangular shapes in the bottom left and along the right edge of the print.
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