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

Subway Bootblack

1938

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Subway Bootblack

1938

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
Virginia Anderson and Robin Owen Joyce, The Baltimore Museum of Art, "Art/Work: Women Printmakers of the WPA," November 5, 2023 - June 30, 2024.

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.

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