Mending Nets, ca. 1939

  • Elizabeth Olds, American, 1897-1991

Wood engraving printed in color ink on japan paper

  • Image: 8 × 10 7/8 inches (20.3 × 27.6 cm) Sheet: 12 × 14 3/4 inches (30.5 × 37.5 cm)

Gift of the Works Progress Administration, Federal Art Project

43.304

Signed, in pencil, lower right: Elizabeth Olds.

Stamp in black, lower left: FEDERAL ART PROJECT | NYC WPA

Inscribed, in pencil, lower center: Mending Nets. Inscribed, lower right corner: 20

1943-present, gift to the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)

Elizabeth Olds, Mending Nets, ca. 1939, wood engraving printed in color ink on japan paper. Detroit Institute of Arts, Gift of the Works Progress Administration, Federal Art Project, 43.304.