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Originally Posted by todeen
I can't help a lot, but to me it seems like something that might have come out of the Depression era Federal Art Project / WPA efforts. They paid artists for pretty much anything, and they didn't do a great job of inventorying items. Officials did want artists using the style known as American Scene painting, and this pen and ink kinda has that feel to me. American Scene was supposed to present/create nostalgia for themes and ideas that promoted good feelings of America. In California some artists took it as an avenue to produce resistance art, but for the most part artists painted what officials wanted. I would start investigating here because the time periods of the two overlap (Negro league ball, and American scene).
I would also go out on a limb and suggest Walt from Howard is the artist signature.
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Thanks so much for the information. Interesting idea about the signature. I never thought of that.
Steve