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Angela Straeter and WPA/Federal Art Project, New York City

Downtown

1934-1938

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Downtown

1934-1938

Physical Qualities Crayon lithograph with scraping and burnishing, Sheet: 391 x 585 mm. (15 3/8 x 23 1/16 in.) Image: 295 x 384 mm. (11 5/8 x 15 1/8 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.1943.9.125
Label removed from verso (form; with ARTIST, TITLE, and MEDIUM typed in): 'WORKS PROGRESS ADMINISTRATION / FEDERAL ART PROJECT / STATE New York CITY New York / ARTIST Straeter, Angela / TITLE Downtown / MEDIUM Litho / PROJECT NO. 65-1-97-7 / DATE OCT 9 1939[stamped in blue ink] / Property of the / United States Government / FAP:1871'; (stamped in black ink): 'OCT 16 1939'.

Inscribed: RECTO: LL, below image (stamped in black ink): 'FEDERAL ART PROJECT / NYC WPA'; LC margin (pencil): 'Downtown'; LR, below image (pencil): 'Angela'; BR Corner (pencil): '17'. VERSO: C: BMA stamp; LL, sideways (pencil): 'Straeter, Angela'; LR (pencil): '#1696 - gr. 2'.

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