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Modern Ruins
Public Domain

Ruth Chaney and WPA/Federal Art Project, New York City

Modern Ruins

1935-1937

Scroll

Modern Ruins

1935-1937

Physical Qualities Color crayon and brush and tusche lithograph with scraping, Sheet: 407 x 290 mm. (16 x 11 7/16 in.) Image: 280 x 212 mm. (11 x 8 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.1943.9.480
Label removed from verso (form; with ARTIST, TITLE, MEDIUM, and DATE filled in with black ink): 'WORKS PROGRESS ADMINISTRATION / FEDERAL ART PROJECT / STATE N.Y. CITY N.Y. / ARTIST Chaney, Ruth / TITLE Modern Ruins / MEDIUM Col Litho / PROJECT NO. 565-3-1 / DATE 7/20/38 / Property of the / United States Government / FAP:394'; (stamped in black ink): 'JUL 26 1938'.

Inscribed: RECTO: LL margin (stamped in black ink): 'FEDERAL ART PROJECT / NYC WPA'; LC margin (pencil): 'Modern Ruins'; LR margin (pencil): 'Chaney'; BR Corner (pencil): '15'. VERSO: LR (pencil): '#1696 - gr. I'; C: BMA stamp.

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