Steel Riggers – No. 4 – Bay Bridge

1935

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Arthur G. Murphy and WPA/Federal Art Project, San Francisco

Steel Riggers – No. 4 – Bay Bridge

Artist: Arthur G. Murphy
Publisher: WPA/Federal Art Project, San Francisco

Steel Riggers – No. 4 – Bay Bridge

1935

Physical Qualities Crayon lithograph, Sheet: 525 x 382 mm. (20 11/16 x 15 1/16 in.) Image: 387 x 298 mm. (15 1/4 x 11 3/4 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.1943.9.771

Label removed from verso (form, filled in with black ink): 'WORKS PROGRESS ADMINISTRATION / FEDERAL ART PROJECT / STATE California / ARTIST Arthur Murphy / TITLE Steel Riggers No 4 B.B. / MEDIUM Lithograph / PROJECT NO 4752-1 DATE 10/10/36 / Property of the United States Government'; (black ink): 'Cat#' (pencil): '538'; (stamped in black ink): 'FEB 11 1937'; (stamped in red ink): 'SAN FRANCISCO'; orange star sticker.

Inscribed: RECTO: BL on stone, reversed: 'Arthur G Murphy 36'; LL margin (blue ink): 'Steel Riggers - No. 4 - Bay Bridge'; LR margin (blue ink): 'Arthur G Murphy'. VERSO: TC (pencil): '#1696 - gr. 2'; C: BMA stamp; BR Corner (pencil): '538-442'.