Grain

Frank Cassara, artist

1913–2017

Grain, 1939

Where object was made: Detroit, Michigan, United States

Material/technique: lithograph; wove paper

Dimensions:
Image Dimensions Height/Width (Height x Width): 381 x 283 mm
Image Dimensions Height/Width (Height x Width): 15 x 11 1/8 in
Sheet/Paper Dimensions (Height x Width): 455 x 335 mm
Sheet/Paper Dimensions (Height x Width): 17 15/16 x 13 3/16 in
Mat Dimensions (Height x Width): 25 x 20 in

Credit line: Gift of Hal M. Davison, Class of 1949

Accession number: 1998.0255

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Brosseau Center for Learning: Centenarians

As a young artist Frank Cassara worked to bring attention to the realities of the Great Depression in Michigan and Detroit through his role with the WPA. As supervisor of the FAP’s easel painting program in Michigan, he produced murals and other works that visualized the effects of job strikes, unemployment, and the range of social tensions facing Detroit and other communities. He taught at the Stamps School of Art & Design at the University of Michigan for nearly 40 years. Cassara drew, mostly with pastels and colored pencils, up to the end of his life.

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