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Catalog Number |
1994.03.15 |
Title |
House Under Construction |
Artist |
Spellman, Coreen |
Date |
ca. 1950 |
Medium |
Lithograph |
Material |
Lithograph |
Dimensions |
H-11 L-7.875 inches |
Accession number |
1994.03 |
Description |
This is a lithograph titled "House Under Construction". This lithograph shows the home under construction. The house only has the shell or frame but the roof is uncovered. There is a man on the roof working with a saw and a man on the inside of the house. Coreen Mary Spellman (1905-1978) was born in Forney, Texas and attended the College of Industrial Arts. Spellman was a teacher, painter, designer, illustrator, lithographer and muralist. In her biography she states the following "I enjoy taking some rather obscure or unimportant subject or theme and making something fine and important out of it . . . It always gives me great pleasure to discover something which has been passed over as being inadequate material". |
Caption |
House Under Construction |
Collection |
TMA |
Cataloged by |
Tomio, Kimberley Bush |
Credit Line |
A gift of Mick Spellman, Forney, Texas, 1994 |
Source |
Mick Spellman; |