Wesley Moore
Fishermen
1900-1999
Physical Qualities
Color screenprint, Sheet: 255 x 428 mm. (10 1/16 x 16 7/8 in.)
Image: 214 x 289 mm. (8 7/16 x 11 3/8 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.1941.80.4
Object card notes this is a group of 10 prints (same image in different shades of blue, green, tan, and dark brown), but only 8 prints have been located as of 1957 (also checked and not found in 1984 and 2013). Despite these being the result of an inhouse demonstration and marked Gift of the WPA, they have been deemed part of the gov't loan.
Inscribed: VERSO: BC (pencil): 'Wesley Moore / Silk screen print made during / All-Maryland Show demonstration, / Apr. 1941. W.P.A. sponsored.'
