Regional poster exhibition – Vintage Poster
(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.)
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A window into the past: Regional poster exhibition, preserved in this vintage poster. Sourced directly from the Library of Congress, it represents an authentic piece of documented history.
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Regional poster exhibition
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A poster advertising a regional poster exhibition is an unusual subject, and this silkscreen print, sponsored by the Federal theater Project, announces a show about the posters themselves. The Federal Art Project's poster unit used the stencil process to produce inexpensive announcements for plays, concerts, and exhibitions across the country during the 1930s. The verso bears a June 1939 date stamp, which suggests the print stayed in circulation or storage well after its original 1936 date. Its subject, an art exhibition in New York State, places it within the wider effort to bring art and public events to ordinary audiences during the Depression.
| Created / published | 1936 |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 print on board (poster) : silkscreen color. |
| Notes | Date stamped on verso: Jun 28 1939. Work Projects Administration Poster Collection (Library of Congress). Posters of the WPA / Christopher DeNoon. Los Angeles : Wheatly Press c1987 no. 239 & 285 · Federal Theatre Project (U.S.) sponsor. |
| Subjects | Art exhibitions--New York (State)--New York--1930-1940. Posters--1930-1940. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Work Projects Administration Poster Collection |
| Original scan | 980 × 1,536 px · prints to 3 × 5 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | 3_Regional_poster_exhibit_1936 |
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