Photography by Edward C. Robison III.
We Have a Claim
President Franklin D. Roosevelt sought to alleviate the financial and psychological devastation of the Great Depression by providing work for three million Americans through the Works Progress Administration (WPA), founded in 1935. In addition to employing white-collar professionals and manual laborers, the WPA offered work to musicians, actors, writers, and artists under a subdivision of the WPA called the Federal Art Project (FAP). We Have a Claim is one of 23 original lithographs that Ida Abelman created for the Federal Art Project.
ArtistIda Abelman(1910-2002)
Dateca. 1939
MediumLithograph
Dimensions14 1/2 x 18 1/2 in. (36.8 x 47 cm)
Signedl.r., in pencil: Ida Abelman
Mark(s)l.l.: [WPA stamp]
Inscription(s)l.c., in pencil: We have a claim!
Credit LineCrystal Bridges Museum of American Art, Bentonville, Arkansas, 2012.25
ClassificationPrint
ProvenanceDaniel Lebard, Brussels, Belgium; (Catherine E. Burns, Oakland, CA); purchased by Crystal Bridges Museum of Art, Bentonville, AR, 2012
On ViewNo
This artwork's face covers about 37× the area of a tennis ball.Drawn to the same scale.
