Railroad Yard / Betty Parish

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Accession Number: 1943.103
Title: Railroad Yard
Artist: Betty Parish
Artist Nationality: American
Artist Life Dates: (Germany, 1908 - 1986, New York, NY)
Medium and Support: lithograph on paper
Object Creation Date: circa 1935
Credit Line: Allocated by the U.S. Government; Commissioned through the New Deal art projects
Inscription: Inscribed LC: Railroad Yard Signed LR: Betty Parish Stamped LL: Federal Art Project NYC WPA Addt'l markings: inscribed LRC: 8
Dimensions: 31.2 cm x 42.7 cm (12 5/16 in. x 16 13/16 in.)
Century: 20th century
Primary Keywords: buildings; harbors; suspension; water; wpa
Secondary Keywords: architecture; bridges; cityscapes; geography; how we live; modern and contemporary art; organizations; the natural world; urban life; waterscapes
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Collection: University of Michigan Museum of Art
Image Size: 941 x 717
File Size: 90 KB
Record: 1943.103
Link to this Item: https://quod.lib.umich.edu/m/musart/x-1943.103/1943.103.jpg

In public portfolios: 15 images (15); Art of the Works Progress Administration WPA (177); Doc. photo and regionalism in the Depression-era (24); Expressionism and Visual Narrative (54); German Expressionism and the Graphic Novel (54); Transportation (392); WPA woman artists (41)

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Full citation: "Railroad Yard; Betty Parish." In the digital collection University of Michigan Museum of Art. https://quod.lib.umich.edu/m/musart/x-1943.103/1943.103.jpg. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed April 16, 2024.