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Joseph Vogel and WPA/Federal Art Project, New York City

Basketball

1934-1937

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Basketball

1934-1937

Physical Qualities Color crayon, brush and tusche, and spatter lithograph with scraping, Sheet: 523 x 407 mm. (20 9/16 x 16 in.) Image: 446 x 325 mm. (17 9/16 x 12 13/16 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.1943.9.151
Label removed from verso (form, filled in with black ink): 'WORKS PROGRESS ADMINISTRATION / FEDERAL ART PROJECT / STATE N.Y. CITY N.Y. / ARTIST VOGEL, JOSEPH / TITLE BASKETBALL / MEDIUM COLOR LITHO / PROJECT NO. 565-3-1 / DATE 11/26/38 / Property of the / United States Government / FAP:394'; (stamped in black ink): 'NOV 18 1938'.
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Inscribed: RECTO: LL margin (pencil): 'Basketball' and (stamped in black ink): 'FEDERAL ART PROJECT / NYC WPA'; LR margin (pencil): 'Jos. Vogel'; BR Corner (pencil): '7'. VERSO: C: BMA stamp; LR (pencil): '#1696 - gr. I'.

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