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Artist’s Life No. 1

Hughie Lee-Smith and WPA/Federal Art Project

Artist’s Life No. 1

1939

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Artist’s Life No. 1

1939

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
Jay FIsher, The Baltimore Museum of Art, "A Decade of Print Acquisitions 1985-1995," 17 April - 23 June 1996.

The Baltimore Museum of Art, "The Face of America: Modernist Art, 1910-1950," 9 October - 29 December 1996.

Academy of the Arts, Easton, "The Face of America: Modernist American Art 1910-1950," 12 September - 25 October 1997.

Cindy Medley Buckner, The Baltimore Museum of Art, "Art in a Day's Work: Prints from the WPA," 11 June-24 September 2000, fig. 13, p. 9.

James Smalls, The Baltimore Museum of Art, "Henry Ossawa Tanner and his Influence in America," June 7, 2006 - December 3, 2006.

Morgan Dowty, BMA, "1939: Exhibiting Black Art at the BMA," June 13 - October 28, 2018.

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

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