Physical Qualities
Drypoint with bitten and printed tone, Sheet: 519 x 407 mm. (20 7/16 x 16 in.)
Image: 378 x 301 mm. (14 7/8 x 11 7/8 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.1943.9.345
Label removed from verso (form, filled in with black ink): 'WORKS PROGRESS ADMINISTRATION / FEDERAL ART PROJECT / STATE NEW YORK CITY NEW YORK / ARTIST Vogel, Joseph / TITLE Strawboss / MEDIUM Drypoint / PROJECT NO. 765-3-1 / DATE AUG 18 1939[stamped in blue ink] / Property of the / United States Government / FAP:1523'; (stamped in black ink): 'AUG 29 1939'.
BMA, "Etchings in America, 1875-1940: Selections from the Museum Collection," 5 November 1985 - 2 March 1986.
BMA, Jay Fisher, "WPA Prints from the 1930's," a traveling exhibition circulated during 1981-1982 to: Caroline County Public Library, Denton; Community College of Baltimore; Landon School, Bethesda; Montpelier Cultural Arts Center, Laurel; Notre Dame Preparatory School, Towson.
BMA, Print Corridor, Jay Fisher, "WPA Prints from the Museum Collection," 23 August - 8 October 1978.
BMA, Jay Fisher, "WPA Prints from the 1930's," a traveling exhibition circulated during 1981-1982 to: Caroline County Public Library, Denton; Community College of Baltimore; Landon School, Bethesda; Montpelier Cultural Arts Center, Laurel; Notre Dame Preparatory School, Towson.
BMA, Print Corridor, Jay Fisher, "WPA Prints from the Museum Collection," 23 August - 8 October 1978.
Inscribed: RECTO: LL margin (stamped in black ink): 'FEDERAL ART PROJECT / NYC WPA'; LC margin (pencil): 'J[aborted signature] Strawboss'; LR margin (pencil): 'Joseph Vogel'; BR Corner (pencil): '22'. VERSO: C: BMA stamp; LR (pencil): '#1696 - gr. 1'.
Publisher
WPA/Federal Art Project, New York City
2000–2000
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