Mining Town / Blanche Grambs

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Accession Number: 1943.43
Title: Mining Town
Artist: Blanche Grambs
Artist Nationality: American
Artist Life Dates: Born 1916
Medium and Support: softground etching 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: Mining Town Signed LR: Bln. Grambs Stamped LL: Federal Art Project NYC WPA Addt'l markings: inscribed LRC: 4
Dimensions: 30 cm x 37.8 cm (11 13/16 in. x 14 7/8 in.)
Century: 20th century
Primary Keywords: abstraction; buildings; factory; fences; mine; road; walking; wpa
Secondary Keywords: architecture; business and industry; figures; genres; how we live; modern and contemporary art; organizations; people and occupations; roads
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Collection: University of Michigan Museum of Art
Image Size: 1325 x 989
File Size: 191 KB
Record: 1943.43
Link to this Item: https://quod.lib.umich.edu/m/musart/x-1943.43/1943.43.jpg

In public portfolios: 15 images (15); Art of the Works Progress Administration WPA (177); Home (131); O - Labor Activism in the US (221); Social justice (347); Social justice and art 1929-1945 (59); Work and workers (328); WPA woman artists (41)

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Full citation: "Mining Town; Blanche Grambs." In the digital collection University of Michigan Museum of Art. https://quod.lib.umich.edu/m/musart/x-1943.43/1943.43.jpg. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed April 19, 2024.