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Keeping up with science / Shari. – Antique Wall Art

Keeping up with science / Shari., Ill. : Federal Art Project, WPA, [between 1936 and 1939] — vintage poster
Keeping up with science / Shari., Ill. : Federal Art Project, WPA, [between 1936 and 1939]. Vintage poster from the Work & Industry collection.

(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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This rare vintage poster captures Keeping up with science / Shari. in remarkable detail. The original is held by the Library of Congress, so what you hang is a true record of its time.

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Keeping up with science" is a color silkscreen poster built around a microscope, an object that stood for the laboratory work and classroom instruction the Works Progress Administration hoped to bring to ordinary Americans. The Federal Art Project's poster unit, which operated in several states including Illinois, used silkscreen to produce inexpensive public notices for schools, libraries, and community programs during the 1930s. This example is credited to an artist named Shari, and a September 1939 date stamp on the back suggests it was filed or distributed late in the decade. Its flat, bold color fields show the graphic style that made these posters easy to read from a distance.

Created / publishedIll. : Federal Art Project, WPA, [between 1936 and 1939]
Medium1 print on board (poster) : silkscreen, color.
GenrePosters 1930-1940.Screen prints Color 1930-1940.
NotesDate stamped on verso: Sep 7 1939. Work Projects Administration Poster Collection (Library of Congress). Posters of the WPA / Christopher DeNoon. Los Angeles : Wheatly Press, c1987, no. 176
SubjectsScience--1930-1940. Microscopes--1930-1940. Education--1930-1940.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan1,184 × 1,686 px · prints to 4 × 6 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-173096

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