Sargent Claude Johnson and WPA/Federal Art Project, San Francisco
Dorothy C.
1937
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Physical Qualities
Crayon lithograph, Sheet: 356 x 202 mm. (14 x 7 15/16 in.)
Image: 281 x 154 mm. (11 1/16 x 6 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.1943.9.132
The Baltimore Museum of Art, "Contemporary Negro Art," 3-19 February 1939, no. 87.
Jay Fisher, The Baltimore Museum of Art, "WPA Prints from the Museum Collection," 23 August-8 October 1978.
Leslie King-Hammond, Lehman College Art Gallery, CUNY, Bronx, "Black Printmakers and the WPA," 23 February-6 June 1989, p 21 illus.
US General Services Administration Region 3, Philadelphia, "WPA: A Philadelphia Retrospective," 16 November 1988-28 January 1990, no. 49.
The Baltimore Museum of Art, "BMA Collects: African-American Art," 21 January-18 March, 1990.
The Baltimore Museum of Art, "The Face of America: Modernist Art 1910-1950," 9 October-29 December 1996; circulated to Academy of the Arts, Easton, 12 September-25 October 1997.
Cindy Medley Buckner, The Baltimore Museum of Art, "Art in a Day's Work: Prints from the WPA." 11 June-24 September 2000.
James Smalls, The Baltimore Museum of Art, "Henry Ossawa Tanner and his Influence in America," June 7, 2006-December 3, 2006.
Morgan Dowty, BMA, "1939: Exhibiting Black Art at the BMA," June 13-October 28, 2018.
Jay Fisher, The Baltimore Museum of Art, "WPA Prints from the Museum Collection," 23 August-8 October 1978.
Leslie King-Hammond, Lehman College Art Gallery, CUNY, Bronx, "Black Printmakers and the WPA," 23 February-6 June 1989, p 21 illus.
US General Services Administration Region 3, Philadelphia, "WPA: A Philadelphia Retrospective," 16 November 1988-28 January 1990, no. 49.
The Baltimore Museum of Art, "BMA Collects: African-American Art," 21 January-18 March, 1990.
The Baltimore Museum of Art, "The Face of America: Modernist Art 1910-1950," 9 October-29 December 1996; circulated to Academy of the Arts, Easton, 12 September-25 October 1997.
Cindy Medley Buckner, The Baltimore Museum of Art, "Art in a Day's Work: Prints from the WPA." 11 June-24 September 2000.
James Smalls, The Baltimore Museum of Art, "Henry Ossawa Tanner and his Influence in America," June 7, 2006-December 3, 2006.
Morgan Dowty, BMA, "1939: Exhibiting Black Art at the BMA," June 13-October 28, 2018.
Inscribed: lower left in graphite: "Dorothy. C"; lower right in graphite: "Sargent Johnson"; upper left verso in graphite: "Johnson, Sargent / #1696 - gr. I"; lower left verso in graphite: "2520-2619"; lower left verso stamped in black ink: "JUL 29 1938"
Markings: Blind stamp: FEDERAL / ART / PROJECT in oval; BMA stamp on verso
Publisher
WPA/Federal Art Project, San Francisco
2000–2000
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