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Vegetable Man
Public Domain

Theodore Wahl and WPA/Federal Art Project, New York City

Vegetable Man

1934-1937

Scroll

Vegetable Man

1934-1937

Physical Qualities Color etching, aquatint, and sandpaper ground with burnishing, Sheet: 405 x 293 mm. (15 15/16 x 11 9/16 in.) Plate: 266 x 205 mm. (10 1/2 x 8 1/16 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.1943.9.511
Label removed from verso (form, filled in with black ink): 'WORKS PROGRESS ADMINISTRATION / FEDERAL ART PROJECT / STATE N.Y. CITY N.Y. / ARTIST WAHL, THEODORE / TITLE VEGETABLE MAN / MEDIUM COLOR LITHO / PROJECT NO. 565-3-1 / DATE 7/20/38 / Property of the / United States Government / FAP:394'; (stamped in black ink): 'JUL 26 1938'.

Inscribed: RECTO: LL margin (stamped in black ink): 'FEDERAL ART PROJECT / NYC WPA'; LC margin (pencil): 'Vegetable Man'; LR margin (pencil): 'Theo. Wahl'; LR margin (pencil): '16'. VERSO: C: BMA stamp; LR (pencil): '#1696 - gr. 2'.

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