Ida Y. Abelman and WPA/Federal Art Project, New York City
Countryside
1938
Scroll
Physical Qualities
Color woodcut, Sheet: 394 x 472 mm. (15 1/2 x 18 9/16 in.)
Image: 302 x 407 mm. (11 7/8 x 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.1943.9.369
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 Abelman, Ida / TITLE Countryside / MEDIUM Color woodcut / PROJECT NO. 765-3-1 / DATE OCT 9 1939[blue stamp] / Property of the / United States Government / [...]1523'; (stamped in black ink): 'OCT 16 1939'.
Extended Loans IN
Art/Work: Women Printmakers of the WPA
Inscribed: RECTO: LL, below image (stamped in black ink): 'FEDERAL ART PROJECT / NYC WPA'; LC (pencil): 'Countryside'; LR, below image (pencil): 'Ida Abelman '39'; BR Corner (pencil): '18'. VERSO: LR (pencil): '#1696 / gr. I'; BL Corner: BMA stamp.
Publisher
WPA/Federal Art Project, New York City
2000–2000
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