two women wearing coats and hats and two men--one holding his hat behind him--seen from back, looking at a painting of a nude with a "SOLD" sign in the ULC; bald man at right with his hands behind his back

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The Prize Winner, c. 1929

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Painter and printmaker Russell Limbach worked as the Art Editor of The New Masses, a publication tied to the Communist Party, and subsequently organized the Graphics Division of the WPA Arts Project in New York. Many of his prints are witty reflections on middle-class American life. In The Prizewinner, some exhibition visitors, especially the taller of the two women, seem somewhat shocked that the painting of bosomy female nude won a prize and found a buyer. Who is the bald man facing outward' The artist' The buyer' Someone too shy to look'

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Title
The Prize Winner
Artist Life
1904–1971
Role
Artist
Accession Number
2018.96.3
Provenance
John E. Andrus III (Wayzata, Minn.); Julie Andrus (Minneapolis, Minn.)
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two women wearing coats and hats and two men--one holding his hat behind him--seen from back, looking at a painting of a nude with a "SOLD" sign in the ULC; bald man at right with his hands behind his back

Copyright of the artist, artist's estate, or assignees