| Maker(s): | Spruance, Benton
| | Culture: | American (1904-1967)
| | Title: | Subway Playground
| | Date Made: | 1951
| | Type: | Print
| | Materials: | Lithograph
| | Place Made: | North America; United States
| | Measurements: | Sheet: 22 3/4 in x 15 13/16 in; 57.8 cm x 40.2 cm; Image: 19 7/16 in x 13 11/16 in; 49.4 cm x 34.8 cm
| | Narrative Inscription: | SIGNATURE/DATE: recto, lwr.r. (graphite): Spruance '51 WGS; SIGNATURE: recto, lwr.r. (stamp in red ink): BS; TITLE: recto, lwr.ctr. (graphite): Subway Playground; INSCRIPTION: recto, lwr.l. (graphite): Ed 40; WATERMARK: recto, lwr.r.cor. (blind stamp): RIVES
| | Accession Number: | MH 1973.262.I(b).RII
| | Credit Line: | Gift of Winifred Glover Spruance (Class of 1925) (wife of the artist)
| | Museum Collection: | Mount Holyoke College Art Museum
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Description:
Edition: 40; view of five children playing in subway car, boy on viewer's top left holds onto hand loop with his feet on the doors and the wall of the car, the boy on viewer's top right holds onto two hand loops, hanging in mid-air, the three girls remain on the floor of the car, swinging around the center pole
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