Free summer art classes for high school students – Vintage Poster Wall Art
(Originally scanned by the Library of Congress. Each image is professionally and digitally cleaned of artifacts such as color bars and extra borders prior to printing.)
Description
This rare vintage poster captures Free summer art classes for high school students in remarkable detail. An authentic image from the Library of Congress, it carries the weight of the real historical record.
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Free summer art classes for high school students
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This 1936 poster announces free summer art classes for high school students, a notice that would have been pinned up in schools, libraries, and community spaces. It was printed in silkscreen, a method the Federal Art Project's New York poster workshops adopted because it was cheap, reproducible in bright flat color, and well suited to large runs of public notices. The Works Progress Administration, later renamed the Work Projects Administration, put unemployed artists to work on projects like this one, and its art programs also aimed to bring instruction to young people during the Depression. The poster is a useful record of how the federal arts projects reached ordinary communities with both jobs and education.
| Created / published | 1936 |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 print on board (poster) : silkscreen color. |
| Notes | Work Projects Administration Poster Collection (Library of Congress). · Federal Art Project sponsor. |
| Subjects | Art education--New York (State)--New York--1930-1940. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Work Projects Administration Poster Collection |
| Original scan | 2,654 × 4,096 px · prints to 9 × 14 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | 93_Free_summer_art_classes_1936 |
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