The People Work - Evening

1937

Benton Spruance

Artist, American, 1904 - 1967

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    lithograph in black on Rives BFK paper

  • Credit Line

    Rosenwald Collection

  • Dimensions

    image: 34.61 × 48.26 cm (13 5/8 × 19 in.)
    sheet: 40.64 × 58.1 cm (16 × 22 7/8 in.)

  • Accession

    1943.3.7988

  • Catalogue Raisonné

    Fine/Looney 1986, no. 143

Associated Artworks

The People Work - Noon

Benton Spruance

1937

The People Work - Morning

Benton Spruance

1937

The People Work - Night

Benton Spruance

1937

Artwork history & notes

Exhibition History

2017

  • The Urban Scene: 1920-1950, National Gallery of Art, Washington, 2017, unnumbered catalogue.

2020

  • American Modernism, National Gallery of Art, Washington, February 20–March 17, 2020 and June 18, 2021–March 2, 2022.

Bibliography

1986

  • Fine, Ruth and Robert F. Looney. The Prints of Benton Murdoch Spruance. Philadelphia: University of Philadelphia Press, 1986.

Inscriptions

in graphite, lower left: 2/40; lower center: The People Work - Evening; lower right: Benton Spruance; in stone, lower right: b.s.

Markings

stamped in black on verso: [stamp of National Gallery of Art] [stamp of Lessing J. Rosenwald]

Watermarks

BFK FRANCE (of Rives Paper Mill)

Wikidata ID

Q65019169

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