Worker with Mallet / Moses Oley

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Accession Number: 1943.102
Title: Worker with Mallet
Artist: Moses Oley
Artist Nationality: American
Artist Life Dates: Born 1898
Medium and Support: lithograph on paper
Object Creation Date: 1938
Credit Line: Allocated by the U.S. Government; Commissioned through the New Deal art projects
Inscription: Inscribed LL: Worker with Mallet Signed LR: M.Oley Stamped LC: Federal Art Project NYC WPA Addt'l markings: signed on stone LL: M.Oley Inscribed LRC: 8 Original NY FAP label in file, dated in ink: 3/16/38
Dimensions: 41.3 cm x 31.1 cm (16 1/4 in. x 12 1/4 in.)
Century: 20th century
Primary Keywords: wpa
Secondary Keywords: how we live; modern and contemporary art; organizations
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Collection: University of Michigan Museum of Art
Image Size: 1782 x 2412
File Size: 572 KB
Record: 1943.102
Link to this Item: https://quod.lib.umich.edu/m/musart/x-1943.102/1943_102.jpg

In public portfolios: 0 - UMMA - Access to opportunity (34); 20th-c. American Realism for theater studies - a study room selection (15); Art of the Works Progress Administration WPA (177); Expressionism and Visual Narrative (54); German Expressionism and the Graphic Novel (54); Graphic arts and visual narrative - a study room selection (18); O - Labor Activism in the US (221); Race, gender, class and American identity (393); Social Realism, mid-19th century to mid-20th century (80); Work and workers (328)

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Full citation: "Worker with Mallet; Moses Oley." In the digital collection University of Michigan Museum of Art. https://quod.lib.umich.edu/m/musart/x-1943.102/1943_102.jpg. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed April 23, 2024.