“Looking Down Penna. Ave. (Dept. of Labor)”, WPA.1935.8, 1935 Painting by Dorsey Doniphan

THIS PAINTING IS BEING POSTED FOR COMPARISON WITH HELLOKITTY'S DONIPHAN PORTRAIT OF A LITTLE GIRL.

WHEN MY RESEARCH IS COMPLETE ON THIS TOPIC, I WILL POST THE BODY OF OUR DONIPHAN FINDINGS on the hellokitty6811's 'Dorsey Doniphan' Show and Tell. That Show and Tell can be found at:

http://www.collectorsweekly.com/stories/51817-dorsey-doniphan-painting

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This image and accompanying text comes to us from the great courtesy of the Registrar @ the Curator of the U.S. Treasury Dept., Washington, D.C. Where I have added text, I have placed it in brackets.

[Treasury text follows below. Full bibliographical citation of some sources that Treasury quotes is unavailable. The text comes courtesy of the Treasury Department. Current disposition of painting: The Treasury Department Collection.]

WPA.1935.8 “Looking Down Penna. Ave. (Dept. of Labor)”,
oil on canvas
Signed lower right: “Dorsey Doniphan”
Frame: 35 x 52 ½ x 3 ¼”
Sight: 29 1/8 x 46 ¾”

Copy of label (from National Archives) in file. Says Dorsey was from Region #4 and that the painting's "Disposition" was to Daniel W. Bell, Room 380 Treasury Dept."

One of 12 paintings of Washington views that were done under the PWAP and "distributed among the various government departments".

[Source: From M. Lavine, Registrar at the Curator's Office, U.S. Treasury Dept., Washington, D.C., Email of 6/1/2012 to miKKoChristmas11, Attachment: "Edwin Dorsey Doniphan Paintings in the Treasury Collection", May 2012.]