Mother Mountain
date: label: Date made
content: 1934
notes: label: Description (Brief)
content: Mildred Bryant Brooks created this print in 1934 as part of the Public Works of Art Project (PWAP), a New Deal program that funded artists during the Great Depression. She is best known as an etcher of treescapes. This engraving "Mother Mountain" showing a vegetation-covered mountain in the distance, was created in response to the PWAP image goal of "American scenery."
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: California
setName: label: See more items in
content: Work and Industry: Graphic Arts
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: GA.17117
label: catalog number
content: 17117
label: accession number
content: 138775
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Print
label: Other Terms
content: Print; Etching
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: paper (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: ink (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: image: 24.3 cm x 31.4 cm; 9 9/16 in x 12 3/8 in
label: Measurements
content: sheet: 29.7 cm x 37.4 cm; 11 11/16 in x 14 3/4 in
label: Measurements
content: overall: 45.2 cm x 55.3 cm; 17 13/16 in x 21 3/4 in