Ida Y. Abelman and WPA/Federal Art Project, New York City
My Father Reminisces
1936
Scroll
Physical Qualities
Crayon and brush and tusche lithograph with scraping, Sheet: 434 x 534 mm. (17 1/16 x 21 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.1943.9.70
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 ABELMAN, IDA / TITLE MY FATHER REMINISCES / MEDIUM LITHO / PROJECT NO. 265-6900-853 / DATE 4/23/37 / Property of the / United States Government'; (stamped in black ink): 'MAY 3 1937'; (red pencil): 'B'.
Virginia Anderson and Robin Owen Joyce, The Baltimore Museum of Art, "Art/Work: Women Printmakers of the WPA," November 5, 2023 - June 30, 2024.
Inscribed: RECTO: LL (stamped in black ink): 'FEDERAL ART PROJECT / NYC WPA'; LC, below image (pencil): 'My Father Reminisces'; LR, below image (pencil): 'Ida Abelman'; BR Corner (pencil): '2'. VERSO: LR (pencil): '#1696 - gr. I'; C: BMA stamp.
