AAK-1415

Commissioners Paul Verdier, Joseph McCarthy, Ernest Born and Antonio Sotomayor looking over the work of Alcatraz convicts for the Open Air Art Show at Union Square

1949-09-23

Still image

1 photographic print : b&w. ; 17 x 23 cm. (6 1/2 x 9 in.)

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Folder: S.F. Fairs-Arts-1949.
Newscopy: "A 'jury' of four members of the Art Commission look over the work of some Alcatraz convicts to select paintings for exhibition in the city's third annual Open Air Art Show, opening Thursday at Union Square. The inmates' works will be shown in a special 'Alcatraz Section' marked by the sign above, designed by a prison inmate. Left to right are Commissioners Paul Verdier, Joseph McCarthy, Ernest Born and Antonio Sotomayor."
Written on back: "Paintings by Inmates of Alcatraz."

English

brn: .b10400837

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