Designed and executed by The Poster Division of The Federal Art Project, Works Progress Administration, New York City – Antique Poster Print
![Designed and executed by The Poster Division of The Federal Art Project, Works Progress Administration, New York City, [1938] — vintage poster](https://images.jameslantos.com/img/19/19e89bf9e5b1-L.webp)
(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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Designed and executed by The Poster Division of The Federal Art Project, Works Progress Administration, New York City comes to life in this vintage poster, reproduced from the original with every detail intact. An authentic image from the Library of Congress, it carries the weight of the real historical record.
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Designed and executed by The Poster Division of The Federal Art Project, Works Progress Administration, New York City
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Unlike most of the Works Progress Administration posters on this board, this one is a calendar, a practical object that still carries the program's graphic style. The Poster Division of the Federal Art Project in New York City designed and printed it around 1938, when the federal arts program employed artists during the Great Depression to make inexpensive public notices. The division helped make silkscreen a mainstay of the program, since the stencil method could produce bold, flat color in multiple copies quickly and cheaply. Christopher DeNoon's survey of WPA posters, which catalogs this piece, is a useful starting point for seeing how the program turned everyday printed matter into art.
| Created / published | [1938] |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 print (text) : silkscreen. |
| Genre | Calendars 1930-1940.Screen prints 1930-1940. |
| Notes | Posters of the WPA / Christopher DeNoon. Los Angeles : Wheatly Press, c1987, no. 316 |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 3,771 × 4,692 px · prints to 13 × 16 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-221177 |
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