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SAMUEL JOSEPH BROWN (1907 - 1994) Writing Lesson.
Lithograph on cream wove paper, 1937. 219x193 mm; 8 5/8x7 5/8 inches, full margins. Signed and titled in pencil, lower margin. Published by Works Progress Administration (WPA), Federal Art Project, Philadelphia.
Additional impressions are in the collections of the Art Institute of Chicago, the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts and the Philadelphia Museum of Art.
Born in Wilmington, NC, Samuel Joseph Brown studied at the Philadelphia Museum of Art, the School of Industrial Art (now the University of the Arts) and received a Master of Arts equivalent degree from the University of Pennsylvania. He began teaching for the Philadelphia public school system in 1938, and was there for over 35 years. Brown participated in the Federal Art Project of the WPA from 1933 - 1948, and his work was praised by Eleanor Roosevelt.
