Lillian Shaw
Shaw painting for the WPA, Federal Art Project. Identification on verso (handwritten and stamped): Federal Art Project W.P.A.; Photographic Division; 110 King Street; New York City Location: W.P.A. Women at Work, 110 King St., N.Y.C.; Date: 4/26/39; Negative No.: 3869-6; Photographer: Sol Horn. Identification on accompanying label (typewritten): Lillian Shaw, sculptor, excels in painting, a delicate process of treating plaster figures so that they resemble bronze, terra cotta and other permanent mediums. She went, on scholarships, to the Art Students League, the Leonardo Da Vinci School, and the American Artists School. In the photo she is shown painting a figure by Richard Barthe sic; likely Richmond Barthé, fellow artist on the WPA Federal Art Project.
- Date
- 1939-04-26
- Photographer / author
- Sol Horn
- Archive
- Wikimedia Commons
- Type
- photograph
- Original size
- 3,586 × 2,805 pixels
Public domainsafest
Reason: a US government work (Works Progress Administration).
Read from: Commons licence category: PD US WPA; no CC BY, CC BY-SA, GFDL or deletion tag on the file page.
Credit line
"Lillian Shaw" (1939-04-26). Sol Horn, via Wikimedia Commons. Public domain. https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Archives_of_American_Art_-_Lillian_Shaw_-_2385.jpgNeed photos for a whole script? Add Find Any Photo to Claude and ask for this one by its id: 166615.
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