Raphael Soyer and WPA/Federal Art Project, New York City
Portrait of a Man
1936
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
Cindy Medley Buckner, Art in a Day's Work: Prints from the WPA. Baltimore Museum of Art, 11 June-24 September 2000.
BMA, Jay Fisher, "WPA Prints from the 1930's," a traveling exhibition circulated during 1981-1982 to: Caroline County Public Library, Denton; Community College of Baltimore; Landon School, Bethesda; Montpelier Cultural Arts Center, Laurel; Notre Dame Preparatory School, Towson.
BMA, Print Corridor, Jay Fisher, "WPA Prints from the Museum Collection," 23 August - 8 October 1978.
BMA, Jay Fisher, "WPA Prints from the 1930's," a traveling exhibition circulated during 1981-1982 to: Caroline County Public Library, Denton; Community College of Baltimore; Landon School, Bethesda; Montpelier Cultural Arts Center, Laurel; Notre Dame Preparatory School, Towson.
BMA, Print Corridor, Jay Fisher, "WPA Prints from the Museum Collection," 23 August - 8 October 1978.
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'.
