Workers of the World, Unite!
Artist
Rockwell Kent
(American, 1882 - 1971)
Date1937
Mediumwood engraving on paper
DimensionsPlate: 8 × 6 inches (20.3 × 15.2 cm)
Credit LineMuseum purchase.
Object number1935.1
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Copyright© Estate of Rockwell Kent.
The images and text contained on this page are owned by Telfair Museums or used by the Museum with permission from the owners. Unauthorized reproduction, transmission or display of these materials is prohibited with the exception of items deemed “fair use” as defined by U.S. and international copyright laws.Label TextPrintmaker, author, illustrator, and political activist Rockwell Kent consistently used his art to champion social causes. Kent was not officially affiliated with the Communist party, but his association with the radical left caused his work to be condemned in America during the Cold War, even while his exhibitions were wildly popular in the Soviet Union. Kent’s Workers of the World, Unite!, a starkly graphic woodcut depicting an empowered worker defending himself from the threatening swords of the upper classes, is one of the artist’s most widely-reproduced and enduring images