MAG Collection - Study for an Unknown Mural Group

ca. 1937-1942
18 5/16 x 29 7/8 in. (46.5 x 75.9 cm)

Carl W. Peters
United States (Fairport, NY, 1897 - 1980, Fairport, NY)

Object Type: Watercolor

Medium and Support: Watercolor, gouache, pen with brown ink, and graphite on board

Credit Line: Gift in memory of the friendship of Ellen W. and Thomas H. Miller with Blanche and Carl W. Peters

Accession Number: 2009.22

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Location: Not currently on view

Murals with a theme of rural labor vs. urban labor, including a smaller panel to go above a door. Possibly early concept for Fairport Library mural?

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by Rochester artists

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Article Scope: Reproduction only. Jessica Marten. Art for the People: Carl W. Peters and the Rochester WPA Murals. Rochester, NY: Memorial Art Gallery, 2015.

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Art for the People: Carl W. Peters and the Rochester WPA Murals