Starvation / Bernard Steffen

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Accession Number: 1943.131
Title: Starvation
Artist: Bernard Steffen
Artist Nationality: American
Artist Life Dates: Born 1909
Medium and Support: lithograph on paper
Object Creation Date: 1939
Credit Line: Allocated by the U.S. Government; Commissioned through the New Deal art projects
Inscription: Inscribed LC: Starvation Signed LR: Bernard J. Steffen Stamped LL: Federal Art Project NYC WPA Addt'l markings: inscribed LRC: 19 Original NY FAP label in file, dated in ink: 4/3/39 Stamped: MAR 31 1939
Dimensions: 20.7 cm x 36.9 cm (8 1/8 in. x 14 1/2 in.)
Century: 20th century
Primary Keywords: cows; death; field; males; standing; straw; valleys; wpa
Secondary Keywords: animals; clothing; figures; geography; hats; how we live; landscapes; mammals; modern and contemporary art; objects; organizations; people and occupations; rites of passage; the natural world
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Collection: University of Michigan Museum of Art
Image Size: 1361 x 969
File Size: 166 KB
Record: 1943.131
Link to this Item: https://quod.lib.umich.edu/m/musart/x-1943.131/1943.131.jpg

In public portfolios: 0 - French, w17 - Doing History (20); 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); Cowboys and cowboy art (39); Death and dying (500); Doc. photo and regionalism in the Depression-era (24); IMLS - modern/contemporary (100); pipkin (5); Poverty (99); Social justice (347); Social justice and art 1929-1945 (59); United States, 1920s and 1930s - a study room selection (19)

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