An Incident / Joseph Shapiro

Access to media is restricted to U-M users.

About this Item

Accession Number: 1943.122
Title: An Incident
Artist: Joseph Shapiro
Artist Nationality: American
Medium and Support: lithograph on paper
Object Creation Date: 1939
Credit Line: Courtesy of the Fine Arts Program, Public Buildings Service, U.S. General Services Administration Commissioned through the New Deal art projects
Inscription: Inscribed LL: An Incident Signed LR: J. Shapiro Original(Mich.) FAP label on verso, typed date: MAY 1939 Addt'l markings: signed on stone LR: Shapiro
Dimensions: 24.8 cm x 33.7 cm (9 3/4 in. x 13 1/4 in.)
Century: 20th century
Primary Keywords: cart; chickens; groups; seated; store; trees; workers; wpa
Secondary Keywords: animals; birds; buildings and the land; commercial buildings; figures; how we live; mercantile buildings; modern and contemporary art; objects; organizations; people and occupations; plants; single built works; single built works by function; single built works by specific type; streets; the natural world; transportation; vehicles
Rights: If you are interested in using an image for a publication, please visit https://umma.umich.edu/about/services/request-image/ for more information and to fill out the online Image Rights and Reproductions Request Form.

Collection: University of Michigan Museum of Art
Image Size: 1383 x 967
File Size: 138 KB
Record: 1943.122
Link to this Item: https://quod.lib.umich.edu/m/musart/x-1943.122/1943.122.jpg

In public portfolios: 0 - Birds and humans (83); Animals, historical and comparative (312); Art of the Works Progress Administration WPA (177); Building American empire: war, politics, and social reform in the US, 1901-1950 (235); O - Labor Activism in the US (221); Social justice (347); Social justice and art 1929-1945 (59); Work and workers (328)

View the Help Guide for more information.

Full citation: "An Incident; Joseph Shapiro." In the digital collection University of Michigan Museum of Art. https://quod.lib.umich.edu/m/musart/x-1943.122/1943.122.jpg. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed April 18, 2024.