Physical Qualities
Crayon lithograph with scraping, Sheet: 467 x 350 mm. (18 3/8 x 13 3/4 in.)
Image: 414 x 309 mm. (16 5/16 x 12 3/16 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.1943.9.108
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 Oley, Moses / TITLE Worker with mallet / MEDIUM Lithograph / PROJECT NO. 565-3-1 / DATE 3/16/38 / Property of the / United States Government / FAP:394'; (stamped in black ink): 'APR 28 1938'.
Cindy Medley Buckner, Art in a Day's Work: Prints from the WPA. Baltimore Museum of Art, 11 June-24 September 2000.
Inscribed: RECTO: LL margin (pencil, partially erased?): 'Worker with Mallet'; LC margin (stamped in black ink): 'FEDERAL ART PROJECT / NYC WPA'; LR margin (pencil): 'M. Oley'; BR Corner on stone: 'M. Oley'. VERSO: LR (pencil): '#1696 - gr. I'; UC: BMA stamp.
