Michael J. Gallagher American, 1898-1965
Down by the River (Clifton Heights Farm), c. 1935
watercolor, graphite & crayon
image: 17 x 22 1/4"
sheet: 18 x 23 3/8"
sheet: 18 x 23 3/8"
signed in pencil
Down by the River is a large watercolor made at the time of Gallagher’s employment as director of the Philadelphia Works Progress Administration Fine Print Workshop. At that time, he...
Down by the River is a large watercolor made at the time of Gallagher’s employment as director of the Philadelphia Works Progress Administration Fine Print Workshop. At that time, he made a lithograph using the same compositional elements, a wooden house near where Gallagher lived outside of Philadelphia in Clifton Heights.
