Object Details
- Creator
- Rowan, Edward Beatty, 1898-1946
- Gross, Chaim, 1904-1991
- Subject
- United States. Department of the Treasury. Section of Painting and Sculpture
- Great Depression
- Place of publication, production, or execution
- Other
- Physical Description
- Letter : 5 p. : typescript ; 27 x 21 cm.
- Summary
- Rowan, Superintendent of the Section of Paintings and Sculpture, writes to inform Gross that he has been selected to participate in a competition to create a sculpture of a postman for the Post Office Department Building in Washington.
Included are diagrams of the niche which would hold the sculpture, and an elevation and floorplan of the room where the sculpture would be installed. - Citation
- Edward Beatty Rowan. Edward Beatty Rowan, Washington, D.C. letter to Chaim Gross, New York, N.Y., 1935 May 31. Chaim Gross papers, 1920-2004. Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution.
- Use Note
- U.S. public domain
- Location Note
- Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution Washington, D.C. 20560
- 1935 May 31
- Record number
- (DSI-AAA)11037
- Type
- Correspondence
- Place
- Washington, D.C.
- See more items in
- Chaim Gross papers, 1920-2004
- Archives of American Art
- Topic
- Federal aid to the arts
- New Deal, 1933-1939
- Public sculpture
- Record ID
- AAADCD_item_11037
