?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 1,500 - $ 2,000
LOUIS B. SIEGRIEST (1899-1989) INDIAN COURT / FEDERAL BUILDING. 1939. 36x25 1/4 inches, 91 1/2x64 cm. Federal Art Project, WPA. Condition B+: minor restoration and repaired tears at edges; abrasions in image. Silk-screen. "By the time Siegriest had begun to work for the Federal Art Project he "had already made a major contribution to California painting as a member of the 'Society of Six,' the Oakland based group of plein air or outdoor artists of the 1920's . . . For the year and half of this employment, he was the sole artist on the Federal Art Project in San Francisco . . . . . . the production of the posters was done by the WPA / FAP poster unit housed in the lower level of a boat anchored off Treasure Island" (WPA p. 55). WPA 81, For the People p. 91, Resnick 32 (var), American Style 90 (var).
