Traian Hrișcă

Printmaker Traian Hrișcă made small, sharp scenes of everyday life in early 20th-century Romania. His linocuts show sunflower pickers at work, a fisherman mending nets by the docks, and stevedores hauling cargo in the port—all done in bold black-and-white cuts. The prints in this set capture the quiet dignity of manual labor around the Black Sea port town of Galați. See how the grain of the lino catches the light in "Pescarul Spiridon Tit" and the stacked crates in "Muncitori în port."