Picasso--40 years of his art – Antique Poster Print
(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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Few images capture their era like this vintage poster of Picasso--40 years of his art. The original is held by the Library of Congress, so what you hang is a true record of its time.
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Picasso--40 years of his art
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Few posters from the Federal Art Project's output announce an exhibition as directly as this one, which promotes a 1936 Chicago showing of Pablo Picasso's work at the Art Institute of Chicago. The silkscreen print was produced under the WPA, the New Deal agency that employed artists during the Depression and turned out posters to advertise cultural events in cities across the country. Picasso was a striking choice for such a campaign, since his modernist canvases were still provoking debate among American viewers at the time. The poster's bold color and flat, graphic layout reflect the medium's strengths, and it stands as a record of how public art institutions tried to draw crowds to challenging new work.
| Created / published | 1936 |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 print (poster) : silkscreen color. |
| Notes | Work Projects Administration Poster Collection (Library of Congress). Posters of the WPA / Christopher DeNoon. Los Angeles: Wheatly Press c1987 no. 68 · Federal Art Project sponsor. |
| Subjects | Picasso Pablo 1881-1973--Exhibitions--Illinois--Chicago. Art Institute of Chicago--Exhibitions & displays--1930-1950. Art exhibitions--Illinois--Chicago--1930-1950. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Work Projects Administration Poster Collection |
| Original scan | 1,119 × 1,536 px · prints to 4 × 5 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | 78_Picasso40_years_of_his_1936 |
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