Raphael Soyer and WPA/Federal Art Project, New York City
Portrait of a Man
1935
Scroll
Physical Qualities
Crayon lithograph with scraping, Sheet: 352 x 289 mm. (13 7/8 x 11 3/8 in.)
Image: 288 x 237 mm. (11 5/16 x 9 5/16 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.1943.9.984
Label removed from verso (typed): 'FAP #3 FEDERAL ART PROJECT / of the Works Progress Administration / Washington, D. C. / 9950-C-M / ARTIST Raphael Soyer / STATE New York MEDIUM Lithograph / TITLE OF WORK 'PORTRAIT OF A MAN' Rec'd. 5/12/37'.
Extended Loans IN
Laura Hapke, "Labor's Canvas: American Working-Class History and the WPA Art of the 1930s," Newcastle, UK: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2008, fig. 9, p. 114.
Inscribed: RECTO: LL margin (stamped in black ink): 'FEDERAL ART PROJECT / NYC WPA'; LC margin (pencil): 'Portrait of a Man'; LR margin (pencil): 'Raphael Soyer'.
