Share your favorites on Show & Tell

WPA 1935 Painting: 'View from south plaza of Treasury, looking north' by Dorsey Doniphan

In Fine Art > Paintings > Show & Tell.
Paintings2313 of 2393"Archives Building", WPA.1935.40, circa 1935, Painting by Dorsey Doniphan “Looking Down Penna. Ave. (Dept. of Labor)”, WPA.1935.8, 1935 Painting by Dorsey Doniphan
5
Love it
0
Like it

aghcollectaghcollect loves this.
mikielikesigns2mikielikesigns2 loves this.
vetraio50vetraio50 loves this.
inkyinky loves this.
miKKoChristmas11miKKoChristmas11 loves this.
See 3 more
Add to collection

    Please create an account, or Log in here

    If you don't have an account, create one here.


    Create a Show & TellReport as inappropriate


    Posted 12 years ago

    miKKoChris…
    (52 items)

    THIS PAINTING IS BEING POSTED FOR COMPARISON WITH HELLOKITTY'S DONIPHAN PORTRAIT OF A LITTLE GIRL.
    Show and Tell for hellokitty6811's Dorsey Doniphan painting.
    http://www.collectorsweekly.com/stories/51817-dorsey-doniphan-painting

    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.1935.9 View from south plaza of Treasury, looking north, oil on canvas
    Signed lower left “Dorsey Doniphan P.W.A.”
    Frame: 36 x 46 ¼ x 2 ¾”
    Sight: 39 ½ x 30”

    In an advertisement in the Washington Sunday Star, 4/8/1934, Doniphan advertised landscape paintings for sale, using this painting as his example. The ad stated that is was "$5 a Picture. Water Colors as Low as $5".

    [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.]

    logo
    Paintings
    See all
    RARE Early 17thC Antique English Queen Elizabeth I Portrait Oil Painting
    RARE Early 17thC Antique English Qu...
    $3,201
    17th CENTURY FRENCH OLD MASTER OIL PANEL - CHRIST & STIGMATA - TABERNACLE FRAME
    17th CENTURY FRENCH OLD MASTER OIL ...
    $579
    19thC Antique American Folk Art Nocturnal Moonlit Rowboat River Oil Painting, NR
    19thC Antique American Folk Art Noc...
    $182
    17th CENTURY FLEMISH OLD MASTER OIL PANEL - THE CRUCIFIXON - FRANS FRANCKEN II
    17th CENTURY FLEMISH OLD MASTER OIL...
    $654
    logo
    RARE Early 17thC Antique English Queen Elizabeth I Portrait Oil Painting
    RARE Early 17thC Antique English Qu...
    $3,201
    See all

    Comments

    1. miKKoChristmas11 miKKoChristmas11, 12 years ago
      Thank you kindly, inky!
    2. miKKoChristmas11 miKKoChristmas11, 12 years ago
      Thank you kindly, bratjdd and vetraio50!
    3. miKKoChristmas11 miKKoChristmas11, 12 years ago
      Thank you kindly, mikielikesigns2!
    4. miKKoChristmas11 miKKoChristmas11, 12 years ago
      Thank you kindly, Hems303!
    5. miKKoChristmas11 miKKoChristmas11, 12 years ago
      Thank you kindly, mustangtony!
    6. ho2cultcha ho2cultcha, 10 years ago
      his paintings are very deserted, ordered and DRY.

    Want to post a comment?

    Create an account or login in order to post a comment.