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Day’s Work Done

William E. Smith

Day’s Work Done

1937

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William E. Smith

Day’s Work Done

1937

Physical Qualities Linoleum cut, Mount: 435 × 278 mm. (17 1/8 × 10 15/16 in.) Image: 230 × 202 mm. (9 1/16 × 7 15/16 in.)
Credit Line Purchased as the gift of Mark and Lorraine Schapiro, Baltimore
Object Number 2002.564
The Baltimore Museum of Art by purchase, 2002; Susan Teller Gallery, New York; Cleveland State University Art Gallery, Cleveland, Ohio
Henry Ossawa Tanner and his Influence in America
Campbell, Mary Schmidt. Impressions/Expressions: Black American Graphics, The Studio Museum in Harlem, New York, and the Gallery of Art, Howard University, Washington, D.C., 1980. Doherty, M. Stephan, Lowery Stokes Sims, and Reba and Dave Williams. Alone in a Crowd: Prints of the 1930s-40s by African-American Artists, 1992. King-Hammond, Leslie. Yet Still We Rise, African American Art in Cleveland, 1920-1970, Cleveland Artists Foundation, 1996. Smith, William E. and Marjorie Will Johnson. William E. Smith, The Printmaker, From Umbrella Stavesto Brush and Easel, William E. Smith, The Story of a Man and his Works, 1926-1976, published 1976.

Signed: 1

Inscribed: on mount, lower left in graphite: " "DAY'S WORK DONE" 18/20"; on mount, lower right in graphite: "William E. SMITH 38"

Artist

William E. Smith

1912–1996

American, 1913-1997
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