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Artist’s Life No. 1

Hughie Lee-Smith and WPA/Federal Art Project

Artist’s Life No. 1

1938

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Artist’s Life No. 1

1938

Physical Qualities Crayon and tusche lithograph, Sheet: 330 × 252 mm. (13 × 9 15/16 in.) Image: 280 × 215 mm. (11 × 8 7/16 in.)
Credit Line Purchased as the gift of Lorraine and Mark Schapiro, Baltimore
Object Number 1995.43
The Baltimore Museum of Art by purchase, 1995; Ed Ogul, Paramour Fine Arts, Franklin, MI
Henry Ossawa Tanner and his Influence in America

1939: Exhibiting Black Art at the BMA
'Alone in a Crowd: Prints of the 1930s-40s by African-American Artists from the Collection of Dave and Reba Williams' Illustrated page 15, discussed page 51.

Inscribed: lower left in graphite: "Artist's Life No. 1"; lower right in graphite: "Hughie Lee-Smith"

Artist

Hughie Lee-Smith

1914–1998

American, 1915-1999
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Publisher

WPA/Federal Art Project

2000–2000

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