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Gas Station

Theodore C. Polos and WPA/Federal Art Project, San Francisco

Gas Station

1937

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Gas Station

1937

Physical Qualities Crayon and brush and tusche lithograph with scraping, Sheet: 327 x 403 mm. (12 7/8 x 15 7/8 in.) Image: 279 x 356 mm. (11 x 14 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.1943.9.22
Blind stamp on recto: 'FEDERAL' above 'ART' above 'PROJECT' in oval with flat sides.
Extended Loans IN

Inscribed: RECTO: LL margin (pencil): 'Gas station'; LR margin (pencil): 'TC Polos'. VERSO: UL (pencil): '#1696 - gr. I'; UC: BMA stamp; BL (pencil): '2554-2653' and 'Calif - Theodore Polos - Litho'.

Artist

Theodore C. Polos

1900–1975

American, born Greece, 1901-1976
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Publisher

WPA/Federal Art Project, San Francisco

2000–2000

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