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Dox Thrash and WPA/Federal Art Project, Philadelphia

Nursery Rhyme

1938

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Nursery Rhyme

1938

Physical Qualities Crayon and brush and tusche lithograph with scraping and burnishing, Sheet: 256 x 445 mm. (10 1/16 x 17 1/2 in.) Image: 161 x 406 mm. (6 5/16 x 16 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.1943.9.739
Extended Loans IN

1939: Exhibiting Black Art at the BMA

Inscribed: RECTO: LL margin (pencil): 'Nursery Rhyme'; LR margin (pencil): 'D. THRASH [THR combined]'. VERSO: UL (pencil): 'Dox Thrash (negro artist of Philadelphia)'; TR (pencil): '#1696 - gr. 2'; C: BMA stamp.

Artist

Dox Thrash

1892–1964

American, c. 1893-1965
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Publisher

WPA/Federal Art Project, Philadelphia

2000–2000

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