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DOX THRASH (1892 - 1965) News Corner (Ninth and Ridge).
DOX THRASH (1892 - 1965)
News Corner (Ninth and Ridge).
Etching and aquatint on cream wove paper, circa 1939-40. 165x125 mm; 6 1/2x4 7/8 inches, wide margins. Only 5 other known impressions. Published by the Federal Art Project, WPA, Philadelphia, recorded in the National Archives and Records Administration, Washington D.C. A very good impression of this scarce print.
This is one of only 5 prints selected by Carl Zigrosser, print curator of the Philadelphia Museum of Art, to be purchased from the local branch of the WPA in 1941. The print shows a Philadelphia street scene in front of row houses. See Ittmann p. 25 and 27.
Illustrated: Dated by the illustration in Locke, The Negro in Art: A Pictorial Record of the Negro Artist and of the Negro Theme in Art, Washington, D.C" Associates in Negro Folk Education, 1940, p. 63 as Ridge Avenue. Ittmann 61.
News Corner (Ninth and Ridge).
Etching and aquatint on cream wove paper, circa 1939-40. 165x125 mm; 6 1/2x4 7/8 inches, wide margins. Only 5 other known impressions. Published by the Federal Art Project, WPA, Philadelphia, recorded in the National Archives and Records Administration, Washington D.C. A very good impression of this scarce print.
This is one of only 5 prints selected by Carl Zigrosser, print curator of the Philadelphia Museum of Art, to be purchased from the local branch of the WPA in 1941. The print shows a Philadelphia street scene in front of row houses. See Ittmann p. 25 and 27.
Illustrated: Dated by the illustration in Locke, The Negro in Art: A Pictorial Record of the Negro Artist and of the Negro Theme in Art, Washington, D.C" Associates in Negro Folk Education, 1940, p. 63 as Ridge Avenue. Ittmann 61.
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