Physical Qualities
Color crayon and spatter lithograph, Sheet: 383 x 509 mm. (15 1/16 x 20 1/16 in.)
Image: 299 x 419 mm. (11 3/4 x 16 1/2 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.1943.9.796
Scenes like this one represent the connections between rural development and economic change across the United States. The spare, wavy hills of Olinka Hrdy’s Good Earth evoke the Dust Bowl landscape of her home state Oklahoma, but depict the southern California area of Woodland Hills before its development into a Los Angeles suburb.
Virginia Anderson and Robin Owen Joyce, The Baltimore Museum of Art, "Art/Work: Women Printmakers of the WPA," November 5, 2023 - June 30, 2024.
Inscribed: RECTO: LL margin (pencil): 'GOOD EARTH.'; LR margin (pencil): 'OLINKA HRDY.'. VERSO: UR (pencil): '#1696 - gr. 2'; LL (stamped in black ink): 'JUL 29 1938'; C: BMA stamp.
