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Summer Showers
Public Domain

Harry R. Rein and WPA/Federal Art Project, New York City

Summer Showers

1934-1936

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Summer Showers

1934-1936

Physical Qualities Crayon and brush and tusche lithograph with scraping and burnishing, Sheet: 345 x 406 mm. (13 9/16 x 16 in.) Image: 280 x 346 mm. (11 x 13 5/8 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.1943.9.738
Label removed from verso (form; with ARTIST, TITLE, MEDIUM, and DATE filled in with black ink): 'WORKS PROGRESS ADMINISTRATION / FEDERAL ART PROJECT / STATE N.Y. CITY N.Y. / ARTIST Rein, Harry / TITLE Summer Showers / MEDIUM Litho / PROJECT NO. 265-6900 / DATE 8/6/37 / Property of the / United States Government'; (stamped in blue ink): 'AUG 13 1937'; (pencil): 'B'.

Inscribed: RECTO: BR on stone: 'HR'; LL margin (stamped in black ink): 'FEDERAL ART PROJECT / NYC WPA'; LC margin (pencil): ' Summer Showers' ; LR margin (pencil): 'Harry Rein'; BR Corner (pencil): '2'; BC (pencil): 'Rein'. VERSO: LR (pencil): '#1696 - gr. 2'; C: BMA stamp.

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