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Nan Lurie and WPA/Federal Art Project, New York City

Speaker

c. 1935-1938

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Speaker

c. 1935-1938

Physical Qualities Brush and tusche lithograph with scraping, Sheet: 580 x 409 mm. (22 13/16 x 16 1/8 in.) Image: 512 x 332 mm. (20 3/16 x 13 1/16 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.1943.9.223

Inscribed: RECTO: LL margin (stamped in black ink): 'FEDERAL ART PROJECT / NYC WPA'; LC margin (pencil): 'Nan Lurie'; LR margin (pencil): 'Speaker'; BR Corner (pencil): '14'. VERSO: LR (pencil): '#1696 - gr. 1'; C: BMA stamp.

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Mr. Viennet at the rostrum. What do I say! (Mr. Laboissière, you do say the nicest things!)…. Let us be greedy... let us give the ministers the funds that they require and let's vote for repressive laws. The present legality is killing us etc. etc. The speaker has carried on in this tone for three hours and 35 minutes and no one has bothered answering him.
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