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Wash Girl - Image 1
Wash Girl - Image 2
Public Domain

Samuel J. Brown and WPA/Federal Art Project, Philadelphia

Wash Girl

c. 1937

Wash Girl — thumbnail 1
Wash Girl — thumbnail 2
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Wash Girl

c. 1937

Physical Qualities Linoleum cut, Sheet: 415 x 268 mm. (16 5/16 x 10 9/16 in.) Image: 252 x 199 mm. (9 15/16 x 7 13/16 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.1943.9.655
BMA, "BMA Collects: African-American Art," 21 January-18 March, 1990.

Cindy Medley Buckner, Art in a Day's Work: Prints from the WPA. Baltimore Museum of Art, 11 June-24 September 2000.

Morgan Dowty, BMA, "1939: Exhibiting Black Art at the BMA," June 13-October 28, 2018.

Inscribed: RECTO: LL margin (pencil): ''Wash Girl''; LC margin (pencil): 'Samuel J. Brown'; LR margin (pencil): '19/20'. VERSO: UR (pencil): '#1696 - gr. 2'; BL Corner: BMA stamp.

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