Olinka Hrdy and WPA/Federal Art Project, Los Angeles
Good Earth
1937
Scroll
Physical Qualities
Color crayon and spatter lithograph, Sheet: 383 x 509 mm. (15 1/16 x 20 1/16 in.)
Image: 299 x 419 mm. (11 3/4 x 16 1/2 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.1943.9.796
Scenes like this one represent the connections between rural development and economic change across the United States. The spare, wavy hills of Olinka Hrdy’s Good Earth evoke the Dust Bowl landscape of her home state Oklahoma, but depict the southern California area of Woodland Hills before its development into a Los Angeles suburb.
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Art/Work: Women Printmakers of the WPA
Inscribed: RECTO: LL margin (pencil): 'GOOD EARTH.'; LR margin (pencil): 'OLINKA HRDY.'. VERSO: UR (pencil): '#1696 - gr. 2'; LL (stamped in black ink): 'JUL 29 1938'; C: BMA stamp.
