Bullet Proof Brown

Will Crawford

About 1932

Titles Bullet Proof Brown (Proper)
Artist Will Crawford, American, 1869 - 1944
Medium pencil on watercolor board
Credit Line Gift of Mrs. Regina P. Simon, 1986.122
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