Object Details
Creator
Rowan, Edward Beatty, 1898-1946
Gross, Chaim, 1904-1991
Subject
United States. Department of the Treasury. Section of Painting and Sculpture
Great Depression
Place of publication, production, or execution
Other
Physical Description
Letter : 5 p. : typescript ; 27 x 21 cm.
Summary
Rowan, Superintendent of the Section of Paintings and Sculpture, writes to inform Gross that he has been selected to participate in a competition to create a sculpture of a postman for the Post Office Department Building in Washington.
Included are diagrams of the niche which would hold the sculpture, and an elevation and floorplan of the room where the sculpture would be installed.
Included are diagrams of the niche which would hold the sculpture, and an elevation and floorplan of the room where the sculpture would be installed.
Citation
Edward Beatty Rowan. Edward Beatty Rowan, Washington, D.C. letter to Chaim Gross, New York, N.Y., 1935 May 31. Chaim Gross papers, 1920-2004. Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution.
Use Note
U.S. public domain
Location Note
Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution Washington, D.C. 20560
Date
1935 May 31
Record number
(DSI-AAA)11037
Type
Correspondence
Place
Washington, D.C.
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Chaim Gross papers, 1920-2004
Data Source
Archives of American Art
Topic
Federal aid to the arts
New Deal, 1933-1939
Public sculpture
Record ID
AAADCD_item_11037