Francis Bernard Shields and WPA/Federal Art Project, New York City

Abstraction

1936

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Artist: Francis Bernard Shields
Publisher: WPA/Federal Art Project, New York City

Abstraction

1936

Physical Qualities Color crayon and brush and tusche lithograph with scraping and burnishing, Sheet: 405 x 582 mm. (15 15/16 x 22 15/16 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.1943.9.352

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 SHIELDS, FRANCIS / TITLE ABSTRACTION / MEDIUM COLOR LITHO / PROJECT NO. 565-3-1 / DATE 6/10/38 / Property of the / United States Government / FAP:394'; (stamped in black ink): 'JUN 21 1938'.

Inscribed: RECTO: LL margin (stamped in black ink): 'FEDERAL ART PROJECT / NYC WPA'; LC margin (pencil): 'Abstraction'; LR margin (pencil): 'Shields'; BR Corner (pencil): '11'. VERSO: LR (pencil): '#1696 - gr. 1'; C: BMA stamp.