Sometimes It Is the Mayor or Chief of Police
1943-1967
Artist, American, 1898 - 1969
Artwork overview
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Medium
lithograph on wove paper
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Credit Line
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Dimensions
image: 9.21 × 6.35 cm (3 5/8 × 2 1/2 in.)
sheet: 22.38 × 28.42 cm (8 13/16 × 11 3/16 in.) -
Accession
2015.19.3421
Artwork history & notes
Provenance
Olga Hirshhorn, Washington, DC; Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, 2004; acquired 2015 by the National Gallery of Art
Associated Names
Exhibition History
1992
Art of Our Time: Works on Paper from the Olga Hirshhorn Collection, Smithsonian Institution Traveling Exhibition Service, 1992-1996
Inscriptions
lower left in red pencil: Sometimes it is the mayor or chief of police.; lower center in graphite by unknown hand: [arrow] 1 5/8 [arrow] 68 [circled] / lui; lower right edge in graphite by unknown hand: 1 5/8 x 7/16; lower right corner in black ink by unknown hand: NR 14; lower left verso in graphite by unknown hand: paid for [underlined]; lower right verso in graphite by unknown hand: 4149 / 6cc
Markings
stamped upper right verso in black ink by unknown hand: New Republic / 40 East 49th Street / New York 17, N.Y.
Watermarks
None.
Wikidata ID
Q77010422