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Date: 1930
 * [[image:https://s3.amazonaws.com/saam.media/files/styles/x_large/s3/images/1933/1933.1.2_2a.jpg?itok=92ZSgtSf width="234" height="311" link="@https://americanart.si.edu/artwork/the-end-of-day-12905"]] || Title: **The End of Day**

Artist: **Max Kalish** Born: Valozin, Lithuania 1891 Died: New York, New York 1945

Medium: bronze Dimensions: 15 3/8 x 5 7/8 x 3 1/2 in. (39.2 x 15.0 x 8.9 cm.) Smithsonian American Art Museum Gift of Max Kalish

Accession: 1933.1.2 || Max Kalish chose laborers, particularly steelworkers and riveters, as his subject because of their important role in industrialized America. Factories employed so many people that to Kalish these workers represented the common man. He appreciated the rhythm and grace that workers showed in their daily tasks, and captured both the physical effort and the well-deserved rest of his laborers, as shown here in The End of the Day. His images of the “heroic worker” were aimed at restoring faith and optimism to a dispirited population suffering the ravages of the Depression.
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