Iron & Ink: Prints from America's Machine Age

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Iron & Ink: Prints from America's Machine Age

April 02, 2025 - September 28, 2025
11:00AM - 06:00PM

This exhibition of early 20th-century prints focuses on a dynamic era in American history—the Machine Age—when industrialization and advances in technology transformed urban landscapes and redefined the nature of work and leisure nationwide. Showcasing Collection prints from 1905 to the 1940s, Iron & Ink explores connections between industrial labor, urbanization, and the growing middle class. The exhibition highlights works by Works Progress Administration artists from the 1930s whose powerful images of machinery, skyscrapers, and daily life—both at work and recreation—capture this transformational era in American society.

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Free for Members or included with Museum admission
 Elizabeth Olds, "Pittsburgh," circa 1935. Color lithograph on paper, 11 3/4 x 15 7/8 inches. Asheville Art Museum, gift of Thelma Lowenstein, 1993.08.16.61 © Estate of Elizabeth Olds.