Lenox Avenue

Artist Sargent Claude Johnson (American, 1888 - 1967)

Date1938

Geographic OriginCalifornia

DimensionsImage: H 12 1/2 x W 8 5/8 in. (H 31.8 x W 21.9 cm)
Paper: H 15 x W 10 5/8 in. (H 38.1 x W 27 cm)
Mat: H 19 1/2 x W 16 3/4 in. (H 49.5 x W 42.5 cm)

Credit LineCourtesy of the Fine Arts Program, Public Buildings Service, U. S. General Services Administration. Commissioned through the New Deal art projects, 1945

Object number45.1281

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Title Details

Primary Title Lenox Avenue

Inscriptionsrecto: l.l. graphite "Sargent Johnson"; l.r. graphite "Lenox Avenue"Marks and Labels/Stampswatermark repeated throughout sheet "WAREN'S OLDE STYLE"; recto: l.r.embossed within a circle "FEDERAL / ART / PROJECT" WPA label on file: FEDERAL ART PROJECT CALIFORNIA OF THE WORKS PROGRESS ADMINISTRATION WASHINGTON, D.C. ARTIST JOHNSON, Sargent TITLE OF WORK Lenox Avenue MEDIUM Lithograph EXHIBITION NO. 3148 DATE 11/2/38 THIS WORK IS THE PROPERTY OF THE UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT AND IS LOANED SUBJECT TO THE REGU- LATIONS OF LOAN AND IS NOT TO BE REMOVED." Stamped in black ink on label "AUG 29 1939" Written and encircled in blue pencil on label "M"Exhibition History"20th Century Afro-American Artists: Selections from the Collection of the Newark Museum," The Newark Museum, Newark, New Jersey (June 18-October 14, 1985)

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