Physical Qualities
Color woodcut, Sheet: 335 x 460 mm. (13 3/16 x 18 1/8 in.)
Image: 256 x 358 mm. (10 1/16 x 14 1/8 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.1943.9.338
Label removed from verso (form; with ARTIST, TITLE, and MEDIUM typed in): 'WORKS PROGRESS ADMINISTRATION / FEDERAL ART PROJECT / STATE New York CITY New York / ARTIST OLDS, Elizabeth / TITLE Harlem Dancers / MEDIUM Color Woodcut / PROJECT NO. 765-3-1 / DATE OCT 9 1939[stamped in blue ink] / Property of the / United States Government / FAP:1871'; (stamped in black ink): 'OCT 16 1939'.
BMA, Print Corridor, Jay Fisher, "WPA Prints from the Museum Collection," 23 August - 8 October 1978.
Virginia Anderson and Robin Owen Joyce, The Baltimore Museum of Art, "Art/Work: Women Printmakers of the WPA," November 5, 2023 - June 30, 2024.
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 (stamped in black ink): 'FEDERAL ART PROJECT / NYC WPA'; LC margin (pencil): 'Harlem Dancers'; LR margin (pencil): 'Elizabeth Olds. 1939.'; BR Corner (pencil): '24'. VERSO: LR (pencil): '#1696 - gr. I'; BL Corner: BMA stamp.
Publisher
WPA/Federal Art Project, New York City
2000–2000
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