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Not Far From Scranton
John Brock Lear, Jr.c. 1940
Reading Public Museum
Reading, United States
A native of Philadelphia, Lear studied art with Thornton Oakley at the Pennsylvania Museum School of Industrial Arts (now the University of the Arts). This painting depicts the gritty, industrial landscape of northeastern Pennsylvania’s coal country during the years following the Great Depression.
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Details
- Title: Not Far From Scranton
- Creator: John Brock Lear, Jr.
- Date Created: c. 1940
- Physical Dimensions: 25"h x 30"w
- Type: painting
- Culture: American
- Credit Line: Museum Purchase
- Creator Death Date: 2008
- Creator Birth Date: 1910
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