Photographer:

Horn, Sol  Search this

Subject:

Hershman, Edna  Search this

Type:

Photographs

Date:

1939 Apr. 26

Place of publication, production, or execution:

Other

Physical Description:

1 photographic print : b&w ; 17 x 22 cm.

Summary:

Hershman painting a mural.<br><br> Identification on verso (handwritten and stamped): Federal Art Project W.P.A.; Photographic Division; 110 King Street; New York City<br> Location: W.P.A. Women at Work, 110 KIng St., N.Y.C.; Date: 4/26/39; Negative No.: 3869-17; Photographer: Sol Horn.<br> Identification on accompanying label (typewritten): Edna Hershman went to the School of Fine Arts at Yale on several scholarships. She won medals from the Beaux Arts in mural painting. One of her murals hangs in the nurses' recreation room of the Riverdale Hospital on North Brothers Island. She is at present executing a mural

Citation:

Sol Horn. Edna Hershman, 1939 Apr. 26. Federal Art Project, Photographic Division collection, circa 1920-1965. Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution.

Use Note:

Current copyright status is undetermined

Location Note:

Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution Washington, D.C. 20560

Topic:

Art and state  Search this

Artists at or with their work  Search this

Federal aid to the arts  Search this

New Deal, 1933-1939  Search this

Painters  Search this

Painting  Search this

Women artists  Search this

Record number:

(DSI-AAA)2153

See more items in:

Federal Art Project, Photographic Division collection, circa 1920-1965, bulk 1935-1942

Data Source:

Archives of American Art

EDAN-URL:

edanmdm:AAADCD_item_2153