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Portrait of a Man

Raphael Soyer and WPA/Federal Art Project, New York City

Portrait of a Man

1935

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Portrait of a Man

1935

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'.

Artist

Raphael Soyer

1898–1986

American, born Russia, 1899-1987
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Publisher

WPA/Federal Art Project, New York City

2000–2000

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