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A black and white print showing a building on a wooden pier. Several small rowboats are moored to the pilings in the water below. A single tree stands beside the structure under a heavily clouded, swirling sky.
Jack's Place
Courtesy of the Harn Museum of Art, Photography by Foad Seyed Mohammadi

Jack's Place

Artist William Hicks (American, born 1895)
Publisher/Publishing House Works Progress Administration - Federal Arts Project (1935 - 1943)
Date1935-1941
MediumEtching
Dimensionssheet: 11 1/2 x 15 7/8 in. (29.2 x 40.3 cm)
image: 8 x 9 7/8 in. (20.3 x 25.1 cm)
ClassificationsPrints
Credit LineGift of Dr. and Mrs. Corbin S. Carnell, in memory of E. Muriel Adams.
Object number1992.11.64
Collections
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