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Bootleg Coal
Public Domain

Michael J. Gallagher and WPA/Federal Art Project, Philadelphia

Bootleg Coal

1936

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Bootleg Coal

1936

Physical Qualities Wood engraving, Sheet: 280 x 360 mm. (11 x 14 3/16 in.) Image: 214 x 278 mm. (8 7/16 x 10 15/16 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.1943.9.430
Cindy Medley Buckner, Art in a Day's Work: Prints from the WPA. Baltimore Museum of Art, 11 June-24 September 2000, fig. 10, p. 7.

Inscribed: RECTO: LR margin (pencil): 'Boot-leg Coal'; LR margin (pencil): 'Michael J Gallagher'. VERSO: TR (pencil): '#1696 - gr. I'; LR: BMA stamp.

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