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Max Kahn and WPA/Federal Art Project, Chicago

Fast Express

1938

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Fast Express

1938

Physical Qualities Color lithograph, Sheet: 736 x 588 mm. (29 x 23 1/8 in.) Image: 639 x 484 mm. (25 3/16 x 19 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.1943.9.474

Inscribed: RECTO: LL margin (pencil): 'no1/10'; LC margin (purple ink): 'fast express'; LR margin (pencil): 'Max Kahn 39'; BR (pencil): '3126'. VERSO: TL (pencil): '#1696 - gr. I'; C: BMA stamp; Lower C (black grease pencil): '3126'; LL (pencil): 'Max Kahn / Illinois / Color Litho'.

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Max Kahn

1901–2004

American, born Russia, 1902-2005
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