Simon Alshets at Easel

Simon Alshets.jpg

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Description

The Federal Art Project sometimes photographed "artists at easels" in order to publicize that WPA program. Here, Alshets is shown at work on his oil painting Deserted Landscape. Because it traveled to Chicago for an exhibit in the Federal Art Gallery in that city, the photograph may have been conceived deliberately. Very little is known about Alshets himself, beyond a few striking artworks created during the late 1930s.

Creator

Pollard, [Aubrey]

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Source

Archives of American Art

Federal Art Project, Photographic Division collection, circa 1920-1965, bulk 1935-1942

Box 1, Folder 20: Alshets, Simon, 1936-1941

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Original Format

Photograph

Physical Dimensions

10 x 8 in.

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