Betty Waldo Parish and WPA/Federal Art Project, New York City
Country Barn
1937
Scroll
Physical Qualities
Color crayon and brush and tusche lithograph with scraping, Sheet: 281 x 408 mm. (11 1/16 x 16 1/16 in.)
Image: 226 x 319 mm. (8 7/8 x 12 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.1943.9.248
Label removed from verso (form; with ARTIST, TITLE, MEDIUM, and DATE filled in with black ink): 'WORKS PROGRESS ADMINISTRATION / FEDERAL ART PROJECT / STATE N.Y. CITY N.Y. / ARTIST PARISH, BETTY / TITLE COUNTRY BARN / MEDIUM COLOR LITHO / PROJECT NO. 565-3-1 / DATE 7/20/38 / Property of the / United States Government / FAP:394'; (stamped in black ink): 'JUL 26 1938'.
Virginia Anderson and Robin Owen Joyce, The Baltimore Museum of Art, "Art/Work: Women Printmakers of the WPA," November 5, 2023 - June 30, 2024.
Inscribed: RECTO: LL margin (stamped in black ink): 'FEDERAL ART PROJECT / NYC WPA'; LC margin (pencil): 'Country Barn'; LR margin (pencil): 'Betty Parish'; BR Corner (pencil): '13'. VERSO: LR (pencil): '#1696 - gr. I'; C: BMA stamp.
