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1944

  • Work on this object began.

1969

  • We acquired this object.

2015

2025

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Drawing, Stage Design: Scene 1–12 - Urban Renewal, for On the Town, 1944

This is a Drawing. It is dated 1944 and we acquired it in 1969. Its medium is brush and watercolor, gouache, graphite on illustration board. It is a part of the Drawings, Prints, and Graphic Design department.

It is credited Gift of Oliver Smith.

Its dimensions are

H x W: 25 × 39.3 cm (9 13/16 × 15 1/2 in.)

It is signed

Signed and dated in pen and black ink at lower right: Oliver Smith '44

It is inscribed

Inscribed at lower left: On the Town

Cite this object as

Drawing, Stage Design: Scene 1–12 - Urban Renewal, for On the Town, 1944; brush and watercolor, gouache, graphite on illustration board; H x W: 25 × 39.3 cm (9 13/16 × 15 1/2 in.); Gift of Oliver Smith; 1969-171-1

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