About the Artwork
Waterfront
ca. 1940
J. Francis Criss
1901-1973
American
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Oil on canvas
Framed: 30 1/2 × 36 1/2 × 2 1/2 inches (77.5 × 92.7 × 6.4 cm)
Paintings
American Art before 1950
Gift of the Works Progress Administration, Federal Art Project
43.96
Public Domain
Markings
Signed, lower right: Criss
Provenance
1943-present, gift to the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)For more information on provenance, please visit:
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Amerika Traum und Depression 1920-1940. Exh. cat., Akademie der Kunste. West Berlin, 1980, no.79 (ill.).
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All works created under the Federal Art Project (FAP) are in the public domain.
J. Francis Criss, Waterfront, ca. 1940, oil on canvas. Detroit Institute of Arts, Gift of the Works Progress Administration, Federal Art Project, 43.96.
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