End of Day’s Toil

End of Day's Toil captures dozens of men streaming out of two factories into a city street. A single street lamp casts an eerie glow over the snow-covered scene while smoke billows out of the factory smokestacks behind them. The men's bowed heads convey their exhaustion after a long, hard day's work, but the smoke serves as a reminder that they will have to return to the same tomorrow. Kish based the factory buildings in the foreground on New York's Domino Sugar factory, located on the East River and shown here with boats in the background. These were actually two separate buildings, but he added the covered walkway between them to unify his composition. Twenty years later, when he returned to the neighborhood, he was surprised to see that a covered walkway now did join the two buildings.