![Rock Quarry: study of workers in stone quarry [mural study for U.S. Post Office, Westerly, Rhode Island]](http://wolfsonian.org/sites/default/files/object/84.5.107.1.JPG?1320807131 "Rock Quarry: study of workers in stone quarry [mural study for U.S. Post Office, Westerly, Rhode Island]")
- Title : Rock Quarry: study of workers in stone quarry [mural study for U.S. Post Office, Westerly, Rhode Island]
- Artist: Leo A. Raiken Artist
- Accession: 84.5.107.1
- Country: United States New York New York
- Date: 1939
- Dimensions: Inches 12-1/8 22-7/8, Centimeters 30.8 58.1
- Collection: Object
- Category: Prints, Drawings, and Photographs
- Collection Theme: WPA and the New Deal
- Subject: Laborers/Workers , WPA/Federal Arts Project , Figurative , New Deal
- Credit Line: The Wolfsonian–Florida International University, Miami Beach, Florida, The Mitchell Wolfson, Jr. Collection
- URL: 84.5.107.1.JPG
- Tags: WPA and the New Deal~Prints, Drawings, and Photographs
Description:
Graphite, ink and tempera on paper original study for a mural depicting workers in a stone quarry performing various activities including mechanical drilling, power sanding, hand finishing and hoisting; included in background is a bank of air compressors.