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Setting for a Clam Bake

Clay Edgar Spohn and WPA/Federal Art Project, San Francisco

Setting for a Clam Bake

1938

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Setting for a Clam Bake

1938

Physical Qualities Crayon and brush and tusche lithograph, Sheet: 314 x 431 mm. (12 3/8 x 16 15/16 in.) Image: 244 x 304 mm. (9 5/8 x 11 15/16 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.1943.9.198
Extended Loans IN

Inscribed: RECTO: LL margin (pencil): 'Setting for a clam bake.'; LR margin (pencil): 'Clay Spohn.'. VERSO: UL (pencil): '#1696 - gr. I'; URE (pencil): 'Spohr, Clay'; C: BMA stamp; BL (pencil): '4396'; and (stamped in black ink): 'MAY 7_ 1940'.

Artist

Clay Edgar Spohn

1897–1976

American, 1898-1977
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Publisher

WPA/Federal Art Project, San Francisco

2000–2000

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