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Max Kahn and WPA/Federal Art Project, Chicago

Fast Express

1938

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Fast Express

1938

Physical Qualities Color lithograph, Sheet: 736 x 588 mm. (29 x 23 1/8 in.) Image: 639 x 484 mm. (25 3/16 x 19 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.1943.9.474
Extended Loans IN

Inscribed: RECTO: LL margin (pencil): 'no1/10'; LC margin (purple ink): 'fast express'; LR margin (pencil): 'Max Kahn 39'; BR (pencil): '3126'. VERSO: TL (pencil): '#1696 - gr. I'; C: BMA stamp; Lower C (black grease pencil): '3126'; LL (pencil): 'Max Kahn / Illinois / Color Litho'.

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Max Kahn

1901–2004

American, born Russia, 1902-2005
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