Selling Candles / Doris Spiegel

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Accession Number: 1943.130
Title: Selling Candles
Artist: Doris Spiegel
Artist Nationality: American
Artist Life Dates: Born 1907
Medium and Support: etching on paper
Object Creation Date: 1939
Credit Line: Allocated by the U.S. Government; Commissioned through the New Deal art projects
Inscription: Signed LR: D. Spiegel Stamped LL: Federal Art Project NYC WPA Addt'l markings: signed on plate LL: D. Spiegel Inscribed LRC: 20 Original NY FAP label in file, stamped in blue: OCT 16 1939 Stamped in black: OCT 16 1939
Dimensions: 17.8 cm x 12.8 cm (7 in. x 5 1/16 in.)
Century: 20th century
Primary Keywords: buildings; candles; candlestick; clothed; groups; seated; sign; store; workers; wpa
Secondary Keywords: architecture; buildings and the land; candles and candleholders; commercial buildings; figures; furnishings; furnishings by form or function; household objects; how we live; illustrations; lighting devices; lighting devices by form; mercantile buildings; modern and contemporary art; objects; objects we use; organizations; people and occupations; single built works; single built works by function; single built works by specific type; streets
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Collection: University of Michigan Museum of Art
Image Size: 911 x 1217
File Size: 94 KB
Record: 1943.130
Link to this Item: https://quod.lib.umich.edu/m/musart/x-1943.130/1943.130.jpg

In public portfolios: 15 images (15); Art of the Works Progress Administration WPA (177); Food cultures (178); O - Labor Activism in the US (221); Poverty (99); Reading the Hipster (20); Social justice (347); Social justice and art 1929-1945 (59); Work and workers (328); WPA woman artists (41)

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Full citation: "Selling Candles; Doris Spiegel." In the digital collection University of Michigan Museum of Art. https://quod.lib.umich.edu/m/musart/x-1943.130/1943.130.jpg. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed April 18, 2024.