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Mural study for Polytechnical High School, Long Beach, CA.

Mural study for Polytechnical High School, Long Beach, CA.
Name: 
PAINTING
Mural study for Polytechnical High School, Long Beach, CA.
1937 1939
Country: 
United States
Accession: 
85.5.1.2
Jean Donald Swiggett Artist Federal Art Project of the Works Progress Administration Other relation
Collection: 
Object
Paintings and Sculpture
WPA and the New Deal
Subject: 
WPA/Federal Arts Project , New Deal , Public Works , Laborers/Workers , Ports/Harbors , Figurative
Inches 24 30, Centimeters 61.0 76.2
Credit Line: 
The Wolfsonian–Florida International University, Miami Beach, Florida, The Mitchell Wolfson, Jr. Collection
URL: 
85.5.1.2.JPG
Tags: 
WPA and the New Deal~Paintings and Sculpture
Oil on Masonite mural study depicting a young man/laborer holding a pipe standing on a dock in the foreground with a freighter ship located in the harbor with various industrial buildings in the background.
Mural study for Polytechnical High School, Long Beach, CA.
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  • Title :     Mural study for Polytechnical High School, Long Beach, CA.
  • Artist:     Jean Donald Swiggett Artist Federal Art Project of the Works Progress Administration Other relation
  • Accession:     85.5.1.2
  • Country:     United States
  • Date:     1937 1939
  • Dimensions:     Inches 24 30, Centimeters 61.0 76.2
  • Collection:     Object
  • Category:     Paintings and Sculpture
  • Collection Theme:     WPA and the New Deal
  • Subject:     WPA/Federal Arts Project , New Deal , Public Works , Laborers/Workers , Ports/Harbors , Figurative
  • Credit Line:     The Wolfsonian–Florida International University, Miami Beach, Florida, The Mitchell Wolfson, Jr. Collection
  • URL:     85.5.1.2.JPG
  • Tags:     WPA and the New Deal~Paintings and Sculpture
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Oil on Masonite mural study depicting a young man/laborer holding a pipe standing on a dock in the foreground with a freighter ship located in the harbor with various industrial buildings in the background.
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