Futility
Hughie Lee-Smith|WPA
1935–43
Medium
Lithograph
Dimensions
sheet: 10 5/8 x 14 in. (27 x 35.6 cm) image: 8 1/2 x 10 3/4 in. (21.6 x 27.3 cm)
Classification
Prints
Department
Drawings and Prints
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Gift of the Work Projects Administration, Board of Education, Cleveland, Ohio, 1943
Accession Number
43.29.19
Rights
Public Domain
About the Artist
Hughie Lee-Smith|WPA · 1915–1999
Mr. Lee-Smith won honors for painting in 1953 from the Detroit Institute of Arts. From 1958 to 1973 he taught at the Art Students League in Manhattan. In 1994 he was commissioned to paint the official City Hall portrait of Mayor David N. Dinkins.