At once expressive and sterile, “Sunrise at Bayonne” depicts a fiery metallic sunrise over the city of Bayonne, New Jersey. Split into three parts, the left image shows a masked laborer, his gloves a gilded gold. Drawn with expressive strokes, the plate tone shadows the worker in gray, reflecting the industrial efforts of the city. Four lines of graphic text sit in the center panel, while the right image shows the sunrise fired by the efforts of labor.
