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

Subway Bootblack

1937

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Subway Bootblack

1937

Physical Qualities Crayon and brush and tusche lithograph with scraping, Sheet: 407 x 582 mm. (16 x 22 15/16 in.) Image: 346 x 448 mm. (13 5/8 x 17 5/8 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.1943.9.33
Label removed from verso (form; with ARTIST, TITLE, MEDIUM, and DATE filled in with black ink): 'WORKS PROGRESS ADMINISTRATION / FEDERAL ART PROJECT / STATE N.Y. CITY N.Y. / ARTIST LURIE, NAN / TITLE SUBWAY BOOTBLACK / MEDIUM LITHO / PROJECT NO. 565-3-1 / DATE 11/26/38 / Property of the / United States Government / FAP:394'; (stamped in black ink): 'NOV 18 1938'.
Extended Loans IN

Art/Work: Women Printmakers of the WPA

Inscribed: RECTO: LL margin (stamped in black ink): 'FEDERAL ART PROJECT / NYC WPA'; LC margin (pencil): 'Subway Bootblack'; LR margin (pencil) 'Nan Lurie'; BR Corner (pencil): '22'. VERSO: LR (pencil): '#1696 - gr. 1'; Left C: BMA stamp.

Artist

Nan Lurie

1909–1984

American, 1910-1985
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Publisher

WPA/Federal Art Project, New York City

2000–2000

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