WPA Art Collection -- Illinois State Museum

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South of Diversey
Marshall Smith
oil on canvas, 1937
30 x 40 inches

Marshall Smith was a native of Prairie du Chien, Wisconsin. He worked for the Illinois WPA easel program in Chicago.

Repetition and rhythm are important in this composition; the artist has detailed the clapboards of the houses and fences with lines.

Collection of the Illinois State Museum
photograph by Gary Andrashko
ISM Accession #: 1999.56

<i>South of Diversey</i><br>Marshall Smith

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