Object Details
- photographer
- Jacobs, Lewis
- Subject
- Gross, Chaim
- Great Depression
- Place of publication, production, or execution
- No place, unknown, or undetermined
- Physical Description
- 1 photographic print : b&w ; 21 x 26 cm.
- Summary
- Date and title of sculpture based on typewritten label on verso of photograph.
Label reads: [Handwritten] Chaim Gross working on [Typewritten] 'Alaska snow-shoe mail carrier'; cast in aluminum unique; 1937, 54" high; in the permanent collection of New Post Office, Washington D.C.
Additional handwritten note reads: won $3000.00 prize for this work.
Photographer's name stamped on verso as: M. Lewis Jacobs. - Citation
- Lewis Jacobs. Chaim Gross working on his sculpture Alaska snow-shoe mail carrier, 1937. Chaim Gross papers, 1920-2004. 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
- 1937
- Record number
- (DSI-AAA)11038
- Type
- Photographs
- Place
- Washington, D.C.
- See more items in
- Chaim Gross papers, 1920-2004
- Archives of American Art
- Topic
- Artists at or with their work
- Federal aid to the arts
- Record ID
- AAADCD_item_11038
