Collection Highlights
Declaration of Independence
Date:
1776
Object Number:
LIB.SY.1776.4
Medium:
Paper, broadside
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Museum Collections
Luce Center
Crap Game on a Roof, from the Series "59th Street Drawings"
Object Number:
1976.13.75
Date:
c. 1945-46
Medium:
Watercolor, black ink, and gouache over graphite on paper, laid on heavy paper, mounted on album page
Dimensions:
Overall: 8 1/8 x 10 5/8 in. ( 20.6 x 27 cm )
portfolio: 16 x 13 1/4 x 2 in. ( 40.6 x 33.7 x 5.1 cm )
Marks:
signature: lower center: "Lionel S. Reiss"
inscription: lower right: "Crap Game on a Roof"
Inscriptions:
Signed at lower center in black ink: "Lionel S. Reiss"; inscribed at lower right in brown ink: "Crap Game on a Roof"
Description:
Genre/cityscape
Credit Line:
Foster-Jarvis Fund, and contribution of Harry Goldberg
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.
