Index of American Design / RW. – Historic Poster Reproduction
(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 Index of American Design / RW. in remarkable detail. Sourced directly from the Library of Congress, it represents an authentic piece of documented history.
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Index of American Design / RW.
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A silkscreen poster from the Federal Art Project's Boston office promotes an exhibition drawn from the Index of American Design, a Works Progress Administration effort to record American folk and decorative objects. Its subjects include weather vanes and a figure of a Native American, a common motif in nineteenth-century vanes that drew on popular ideas of the frontier. The Index put artists to work producing careful renderings of such everyday objects, so the poster doubles as a record of the public outreach behind that documentation. A date stamp on the back indicates it was in circulation by April 1938.
| Created / published | 1936 |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 print on board (poster) : silkscreen color. |
| Notes | Date stamped on verso: Apr 4 1938. Work Projects Administration Poster Collection (Library of Congress). Posters of the WPA / Christopher DeNoon. Los Angeles : Wheatly Press c1987 no. 64 · Federal Art Project sponsor. |
| Subjects | Art exhibitions--Massachusetts--Boston--1930-1940. Indians of North America--1930-1940. Weather vanes--1930-1940. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Work Projects Administration Poster Collection |
| Original scan | 1,107 × 1,536 px · prints to 4 × 5 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | 125_Index_of_American_Desig_1936 |
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