Pen and ink and watercolor on cream wove paper. 285x227 mm; 111/8x87/8 inches. Signed in ink, lower right.
Julius Bloch, a social realist painter, was one of the first American artists to paint poverty-stricken Black Americans. He entered the WPA, Public Works of Art Project, early and his painting, Young Worker, circa 1934, now in the Philadelphia Museum of Art, was praised by then First Lady, Eleanor Roosevelt.
