Interior domestic scene of man and wife and dogs

Light Housekeeping

Artist Hugh Pearce Botts (American, 1903 - 1964)

Publisher/Publishing House Works Progress Administration - Federal Arts Project (1935 - 1943)

Date1941

MediumLithograph

Dimensionssheet: 16 x 23 5/8 in. (40.6 x 60 cm)
image: 11 1/2 x 15 1/4 in. (29.2 x 38.7 cm)

ClassificationsPrints

Credit LineCourtesy of the Fine Arts Program, Public Buildings Service, U.S. General Services Administration, commissioned through the New Deal Art Projects, with gratitude to Dr. and Mrs. Corbin S. Carnell, in memory of E. Muriel Adams.

Object numberL2012.54.17

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Visual DescriptionInterior domestic scene of man and wife and dogs

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