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Construction
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Hugh C. Miller and WPA/Federal Art Project, New York City

Construction

1935

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Construction

1935

Physical Qualities Crayon and brush and tusche lithograph with scraping, Sheet: 289 x 404 mm. (11 3/8 x 15 7/8 in.) Image: 236 x 331 mm. (9 5/16 x 13 1/16 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.1943.9.351
Label removed from verso (form; with State, City, Artist, Title, Medium, and Project No typed in): 'WORKS PROGRESS ADMINISTRATION / Federal Art Project / State NY City NY / Artist Miller, Hugh / Title Construction / Medium Lithograph / Project No. 265-6900 853 / DATE OCT 29 1936[stamped in blue ink] / Property of the / United States Government'; (stamped in blue ink): 'NOV 2 1936'; red star sticker.
Cindy Medley Buckner, Art in a Day's Work: Prints from the WPA. Baltimore Museum of Art, 11 June-24 September 2000.

Inscribed: RECTO: LL margin, overlapping image: (stamped in black ink): 'FEDERAL ART PROJECT / WPA NYC'; BC (pencil): 'Construction'; BR (pencil): 'Hugh Miller'; BR Corner (pencil): '4'; BL Corner (pencil): '8'. VERSO: LR (pencil): '#1696 - gr. 1'; Left C: BMA stamp.

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