Willie Hopkins and WPA/Federal Art Project, California
Scram!
1934-1936
Scroll
Physical Qualities
Color crayon lithograph with scraping, Sheet: 288 x 403 mm. (11 5/16 x 15 7/8 in.)
Image: 147 x 325 mm. (5 13/16 x 12 13/16 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.1943.9.799
Label removed from verso (form, typed in): 'FEDERAL ART PROJECT / CALIFORNIA / OF THE WORKS PROGRESS ADMINISTRATION / WASHINGTON, D.C. / ARTIST Hopkins, William / TITLE OF WORK / Scram / MEDIUM Lithograph / EXHIBITION NO. 4870 DATE 7/26/37 / 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 on stone: 'WILLIE HOPKINS' and below: ' Scram'!'. VERSO: UC (pencil): '#1696 - gr. 2'; TR Corner (stamped in blue ink, filled in with blue ink): 'FEDERAL ART PROJECT NO. 4870 / TITLE 'Scram' / ARTIST William Hopkins / RECEIVED 7-26-37 / 6x13'; UR (stamped in black ink): 'OCT 6 1937'; C: BMA stamp.