Dorothy Jeakins and WPA/Federal Art Project, Los Angeles
Pears
1935
Scroll
Physical Qualities
Crayon and brush and tusche lithograph, Sheet: 293 x 458 mm. (11 9/16 x 18 1/16 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.1943.9.282
Label removed from verso (form, typed in): 'FEDERAL ART PROJECT / CALIFORNIA / OF THE WORKS PROGRESS ADMINISTRATION / WASHINGTON, D.C. / ARTIST Jeakins, Dorothy / TITLE OF WORK Pears / MEDIUM Lithograph / EXHIBITION NO 7012B / DATE 3/29/37 / THIS WORK IS THE PROPERTY OF THE UNITED / STATES GOVERNMENT AND IS LOANED SUBJECT / TO THE REGULATIONS OF LOAN AND IS NOT / TO BE REMOVED.'; (stamped in black ink): 'OCT 6 1937'. Blind stamp reads 'FEDERAL' above 'ART' above 'PROJECT' in oval with flat sides.
Extended Loans IN
Inscribed: RECTO: LL margin (pencil): 'Pears'; LR margin (pencil): 'Dorothy Jeakins 1[circled] 1936'. VERSO: TC (pencil): '#1696 - gr. I'; URE (stamped in blue ink): 'OCT 6 1937'; Left C: BMA stamp.
