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Decadent Art & New Life
Public Domain

Thomas Hayes and WPA/Federal Art Project, San Francisco

Decadent Art & New Life

1936

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Decadent Art & New Life

1936

Physical Qualities Crayon lithograph, Sheet: 353 x 252 mm. (13 7/8 x 9 15/16 in.) Image: 306 x 228 mm. (12 1/16 x 9 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.1943.9.788
Blind stamp reads 'FEDERAL above 'ART' above 'PROJECT' in oval with flat sides.
BMA, Print Corridor, Jay Fisher, "WPA Prints from the Museum Collection," 23 August - 8 October 1978.

Inscribed: RECTO: LL margin (pencil): 'Decadent Art & New Life'; LR (pencil): 'Thomas Hayes 1937'; BR (pencil): '20'. VERSO: TL (pencil): '#1696 - gr. 2 / Hayes / Calif / Litho'; BL (pencil): '1832-1931'; C: BMA stamp.

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