Object number1988.40.1

View of Poughkeepsie in 1840, competition sketch for mural, unrealized, Post Office, Poughkeepsie, New York

Date1938/1939

Artist Judson Smith (American, 1880-1962)

CultureAmerican

MediumTempera and graphite on brown paperboard

DimensionsFramed: 16 1/4 x 41 in. (41.28 x 104.14 cm)
Sheet: 9 3/8 x 34 3/4 in. (23.81 x 88.27 cm)

Credit LineGift of the Judson Smith Family

On View

Not on view

Period20th c

Classification(s)

Drawings and Watercolors

SignedSigned and dated (LR, on mat): Judson Smith 1935

InscribedInscribed (LL, on mat): Poughkeepsie, 1840

BibliographyFor the People: American Mural Drawings of the 1930s and 1940s, (Poughkeepsie: FLLAC, 2007)

Vassar Exhibitions

Celebrating Heroes: American Mural Studies of the 1930s and 1940s from the Steven and Susan Hirsch Collection

For the People: American Mural Drawings of the 1930s and 1940s

Exhibition HistoryFor the People: American Mural Drawings of the 1930s and 1940s, The Frances Lehman Loeb Art Center, Poughkeepsie, NY, January 12 - March 11, 2007;

Celebrating 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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