New Jersey Paintings Exhibit – Antique Print
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Description
New Jersey Paintings Exhibit comes to life in this vintage poster, reproduced from the original with every detail intact. It is part of the Snapshots of the Past archive, gathered over 25 years of research.
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New Jersey Paintings Exhibit
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A color silkscreen poster advertising the New Jersey Paintings Exhibit, produced around 1939 under the Works Progress Administration's Federal Art Project in Newark, announces a show of work by state artists. The Federal Art Project, part of the WPA from 1935 to 1943, employed artists during the Great Depression and used its poster division to promote exhibitions, concerts, and classes across the country. Silkscreen was a fairly new method for commercial-style printing then, and the project's artists used it to make bold, flat designs that could be produced cheaply in large runs. Posters like this one preserve both a record of regional art activity and a good example of the period's graphic design.
| Created / published | c. 1939 |
|---|---|
| Medium | print on board, poster, silkscreen, color |
| Notes | W.P.A. Federal Art Project, Newark, New Jersey |
| Original scan | 1,500 × 2,416 px · prints to 5 × 8 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | 27 |
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