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At Night

Theodore C. Polos and WPA/Federal Art Project, San Francisco

At Night

1937-1938

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At Night

1937-1938

Physical Qualities Crayon and brush and tusche lithograph with scraping, Sheet: 465 x 314 mm. (18 5/16 x 12 3/8 in.) Image: 359 x 269 mm. (14 1/8 x 10 9/16 in.)
Credit Line The United States General Services Administration, formerly Federal Works Agency, Works Progress Administration, on extended loan to the Baltimore Museum of Art.
Object Number L.1943.9.85
Label removed from verso (form, typed in): FEDERAL ART PROJECT / CALIFORNIA / of the Works Progress Administration / Washington, D.C. / ARTIST POLOS, T.C. / TITLE OF WORK At Night / MEDIUM Lithograph / EXHIBITION NO. 3414 DATE 2/1/39 / This work is the property of the United / States Government and is loaned subject / to the regulations of loan and is not to / be removed.'; (stamped in black ink): 'AUG 29 1939'; (stamped in red ink): 'SAN FRANCISCO'. Blind stamp on recto: 'FEDERAL' above 'ART' above 'PROJECT' in oval with flat sides.
Extended Loans IN

Inscribed: RECTO: LL margin (pencil): 'At night-'; LR margin (pencil): 'TC Polos'; BR on stone: 'T Polos'. VERSO: URE (pencil, sideways): '#1696 - gr. 1'; C: BMA stamp; BL Corner (pencil): '3315-3414'.

Artist

Theodore C. Polos

1900–1975

American, born Greece, 1901-1976
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Publisher

WPA/Federal Art Project, San Francisco

2000–2000

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