Exhibition WPA Federal Art Project Index of American Design / Milhous. – 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.)
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This rare vintage poster captures Exhibition WPA Federal Art Project Index of American Design / Milhous. 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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Exhibition WPA Federal Art Project Index of American Design / Milhous.
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Advertising a 1936 exhibition of Katherine Milhous's work for the Index of American Design, this color woodcut poster comes from the Federal Art Project, one of the Works Progress Administration's arts programs. The Index was a nationwide effort to record American folk and decorative objects such as furniture, textiles and household tools through careful drawings and paintings. Milhous, a Philadelphia artist who later became known for her children's books, was part of that Depression-era work. The poster's bold, flat shapes reflect how WPA artists used printmaking to create inexpensive public notices.
| Created / published | 1936 |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 print on board (poster) : woodcut color. |
| Notes | Work Projects Administration Poster Collection (Library of Congress). Posters of the WPA / Christopher DeNoon. Los Angeles : Wheatly Press c1987 no. 31 · Federal Art Project sponsor. |
| Subjects | Art exhibitions--Pennsylvania--Philadelphia--1930-1940. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Work Projects Administration Poster Collection |
| Original scan | 1,098 × 1,536 px · prints to 4 × 5 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | 194_Exhibition_WPA_Federal_1936 |
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