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Scene of houses along a road on a hill; dark sky and light suffused grey day.
Grey Day
Courtesy of the Harn Museum of Art, Photography by Foad Seyed Mohammadi

Grey Day

Artist Beatrice Mandelman (American, 1912 - 1998)
Publisher/Publishing House Works Progress Administration - Federal Arts Project (1935 - 1943)
Date1936-1943
MediumLithograph
Dimensionssheet: 16 x 23 in. (40.6 x 58.4 cm)
image: 13 x 16 1/4 in. (33 x 41.3 cm)
ClassificationsPrints
Credit LineGift of Dr. and Mrs. Corbin S. Carnell, in memory of E. Muriel Adams.
Object number1992.11.96
Collections
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