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Fire on Backbone Mountain, Garrett County, Maryland

Aaron Sopher and WPA/Federal Art Project, Baltimore

Fire on Backbone Mountain, Garrett County, Maryland

1900-1999

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Fire on Backbone Mountain, Garrett County, Maryland

1900-1999

Physical Qualities Drypoint with printed tone and watercolor, Sheet: 209 x 235 mm. (8 1/4 x 9 1/4 in.) Plate: 125 x 177 mm. (4 15/16 x 6 15/16 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.1941.90

Inscribed: RECTO: LL (pencil): 'proof.'; 'Fire on Backbone Mountain / Garrett County, Maryland'; LR margin (pencil): 'Aaron Sopher'; LR (pencil): 'drypoint'; in plate LL: 'A. Sopher 34'.

Artist

Aaron Sopher

1904–1971

American, 1905-1972
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Publisher

WPA/Federal Art Project, Baltimore

2000–2000

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