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Daily LIFT #1540

Writer's picture: Michael LaxerMichael Laxer

Early Morning, woodcut, Gan Zigormas Kolski, USA 1930 -- Daily Lift #1540


Gan Zigormas Kolski was born in Poland in 1899 and emigrated to the US and New York City in 1920. Kolski. a staunch Communist and Marxist produced illustrations for the New Masses and participated in exhibitions by the John Reed Club. His themes were working class and social realist.


Sadly, Kolski committed suicide at the young age of 33. In his suicide note he wrote “If you cannot hear the cry of starving millions, listen to the dead, brothers. Your economic system is dead.”

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