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Nursery Rhyme - Image 1
Nursery Rhyme - Image 2
Public Domain

Dox Thrash and WPA/Federal Art Project, Philadelphia

Nursery Rhyme

1938

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Nursery Rhyme

1938

Physical Qualities Crayon and brush and tusche lithograph with scraping and burnishing, Sheet: 256 x 445 mm. (10 1/16 x 17 1/2 in.) Image: 161 x 406 mm. (6 5/16 x 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.1943.9.739
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): 'Nursery Rhyme'; LR margin (pencil): 'D. THRASH [THR combined]'. VERSO: UL (pencil): 'Dox Thrash (negro artist of Philadelphia)'; TR (pencil): '#1696 - gr. 2'; C: BMA stamp.

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