Letterio Calapai

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Object Details

Subject

Calapai, Letterio

Place of publication, production, or execution

Other

Physical Description

1 photographic print : b&w ; 26 x 21 cm.

Summary

Letterio Calapai working on a mural for the WPA.
Identification on verso (handwritten): 101st Army Signal Corps; artist: Calapai
Identification on accompanying label: The Civil War, left panel of a mural, "The Evolution of Communications in American Wars", painted for the 101st Battalion Signal Corps. 801 Dean St., Brooklyn, by Letterio Calapai, under the direction of the WPA Federal Art Project.

Citation

Letterio Calapai, ca. 1937. Federal Art Project, Photographic Division collection, circa 1920-1965. Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution.

Use Note

Current copyright status is undetermined

Location Note

Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution Washington, D.C. 20560

Date

ca. 1937

Record number

(DSI-AAA)3129

Type

Photographs

Place

Brooklyn, N.Y.

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

Data Source

Archives of American Art

Topic

Art and state

Artists at or with their work

Federal aid to the arts

New Deal, 1933-1939

Painting

Metadata Usage

Usage conditions apply

Record ID

AAADCD_item_3129