Skip to main content
Wrecking
Public Domain

Jacob Kainen and WPA/Federal Art Project, New York City

Wrecking

1937

Scroll

Wrecking

1937

Physical Qualities Crayon lithograph with scraping, Sheet: 331 x 404 mm. (13 1/16 x 15 7/8 in.) Image: 252 x 333 mm. (9 15/16 x 13 1/8 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.1943.9.687
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 (stamped in black ink): 'FEDERAL ART PROJECT / NYC WPA'; LC margin (pencil): 'Wrecking'; LR margin (pencil): 'Jacob Kainen'; BR Corner (pencil): '6'; LR on stone: 'JK'. VERSO: LR (pencil): '#1696 - gr. 2'; C: BMA stamp.

Explore the Collection Further

Jacob Kainen
Banana Man
1937
Jacob Kainen and WPA/Federal Art Project, New York City
Coffee Pot
1937
Jacob Kainen and WPA/Federal Art Project, New York City
Dead End
1936
Jacob Kainen and WPA/Federal Art Project, New York City
Tenement Fire
1935
Jacob Kainen and WPA/Federal Art Project, New York City
Dock Scene
1936
Jacob Kainen and WPA/Federal Art Project, New York City
Breakfast
1938
Jacob Kainen and WPA/Federal Art Project, New York City
Flood
1937
Jacob Kainen
Headland
1940s
Jacob Kainen and Michael Smallwood
Plunger
1975
Jacob Kainen
Morning Visit
1979