Nov 13, 2006 - Sale 2093

Sale 2093 - Lot 177

Price Realized: $ 1,560
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 1,500 - $ 2,000
KATHERINE MILHOUS (1894-1977) RURAL PENNSYLVANIA. Circa 1939.
21x16 3/4 inches. Federal Arts Project, PA.
Condition A. Paper. Matted.
"Milhous was educated at the Philadelphia Museum School of Industrial Art and the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts before joining the FAP. An exhibition of her posters in a FAP gallery attracted the attention of a children's book editor at Charles Scribner's Sons, where she was a staff designer 1944-1946, and launched her successful career as an award-winning children's book illustrator" (WPA p. 164). WPA 303.