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Steel Workers, study for mural, unrealized, Post Office, Bridgeport, Ohio, 48 States Competition
Steel Workers, study for mural, unrealized, Post Office, Bridgeport, Ohio, 48 States Competition
Object number2015.23.4.2

Steel Workers, study for mural, unrealized, Post Office, Bridgeport, Ohio, 48 States Competition

Date1939
Artist (American, 1906-1988)
Artist (American, 1907-1991)
CultureAmerican
MediumGouache, watercolor, and graphite on thick cardboard
DimensionsFramed: 20 x 41 in. (50.8 x 104.14 cm)
Image: 16 1/4 x 37 3/8 in. (41.28 x 94.93 cm)
Matted: 17 1/8 x 38 1/16 in. (43.5 x 96.68 cm)
Credit LineGift of Susan and Steven Hirsch, class of 1971
On View
Not on view
Period20th c
Classification(s)
BibliographyPhagan, Patricia. Celebrating Heroes: American Mural Studies of the 1930s and 1940s from the Steven and Susan Hirsch Collection. (Poughkeepsie: Frances Lehman Loeb Art Center, Vassar College, 2016), p.98-101, repr. p.98, no.43.ProvenanceEstate of Artist
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
Object information is a work in progress and may be updated as new research findings emerge. To help improve this record, please email loebcollections@vassar.edu
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