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DrawingsAmerican20th century

Three Prisoners Sleeping, Sketch for the Rikers Island Mural

1934

Artists

Lou BlockArtist

Classification

Drawings

Medium

Oil and black ink on thin brown Kraft paper, mounted to heavy buff cardboard

Culture

American

Century

20th century

Division

Modern and Contemporary Art

Department

Department of Drawings

Dimensions

35.7 x 39.2 cm (14 1/16 x 15 7/16 in.)

Provenance

Lou Block, 1934, possibly by bequest; to Malu Nay Block and Fayette Block Watkis, 1969, gift; to the Harvard University Art Museums, 1998.

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