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View of Poughkeepsie in 1940, competition sketch for mural, unrealized, Post Office, Poughkeepsie, New York
View of Poughkeepsie in 1940, competition sketch for mural, unrealized, Post Office, Poughkeepsie, New York
Object number2015.20.1

View of Poughkeepsie in 1940, competition sketch for mural, unrealized, Post Office, Poughkeepsie, New York

Date1938/1939
Artist (American, 1902 - 1947)
CultureAmerican
MediumWatercolor, graphite, and black ink on Bainbridge illustration board
DimensionsImage: 9 x 34 3/4 in. (22.9 x 88.3 cm)
Mount: 11 1/2 x 36 1/8 in. (29.2 x 91.8 cm)
Framed: 15 1/8 x 39 5/8 x 1 in. (38.4 x 100.6 x 2.5 cm)
Credit LinePurchase, Dexter M. Ferry Collection Fund
Period20th c
Classification(s)
Vassar Exhibitions
Exhibition HistoryCelebrating Heroes: American Mural Studies of the 1930s and the 1940s from the Steven and Susan Hirsch Collection, The Frances Lehman Loeb Art Center, Poughkeepsie, NY, September 2 - December 18, 2016; Marianna Kistler Beach Museum of Art, Kansas State University, Manhattan, KS, March 5 - June 15, 2019
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