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Morning Routine
, American, 1895-1981
Title
Morning Routine
Date1940s
MediumLithograph
Dimensions
Sheet: 40.4 x 30.4 cm
Image: 40.4 x 30.4 cm
Signedlower right (in pencil): Lucile Blanch
Credit LinePresented, Brian Lalor Print Collection, 2014
Object numberNGI.2014.85
DescriptionBorn Lucile Linguist, Blanch is best known for her lithographs and paintings depicting small town America. In the 1920s she joined the Woodstock Art Colony in Upstate New York. In the 1930s she exhibited at the newly founded Whitney Museum of American Art. She was commissioned to create murals for the US Post Office by the WPA, the government agency which gave work to millions of unemployed people during the Depression.
Inscriptionlower left (in pencil): 12 prints
lower centre (in pencil): Morning Routine