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Untitled, Industrial Wichita no. 2 (aka Wheat Elevators)
Artist
William Judson Dickerson
(United States, 1904 - 1972)
Publisher
WPA Federal Arts Project
(United States, 1935 - 1943)
Date1934
MediumLithograph on paper
DimensionsIMAGE: 11 x 14 15/16 in. (279.4 x 379.4 mm)
SHEET: 15 x 18 3/4 in. (381 x 476.2 mm)
SHEET: 15 x 18 3/4 in. (381 x 476.2 mm)
Object TypePrints
Credit LineKSU, Marianna Kistler Beach Museum of Art, gift of the Works Progress Administration Federal Art Project
Edition17/30
Object number1939.2
On View
Not on view• The edges of the city and its backyards and alleyways attracted artist William Dickerson of Wichita. Elevators depicts the city’s Red Star Milling Company grain elevators along the Santa Fe railroad tracks looking south from 21st Street.
• A biographer of the artist (likely his wife Betty Dickerson) wrote: “In the city backyard areas he moved in with camp stools and chose his vantage spots with care. These numerous ‘backyards’ were especially dear to him … with their semi-surreal quality which he made even more compelling by selective understatement.”
• A biographer of the artist (likely his wife Betty Dickerson) wrote: “In the city backyard areas he moved in with camp stools and chose his vantage spots with care. These numerous ‘backyards’ were especially dear to him … with their semi-surreal quality which he made even more compelling by selective understatement.”
Exhibitions
Bibliography
Kansas magazine.
William J. Dickerson, 1904-1972.
