Bridgeport Symphony Orchestra - Frank Foti conductor – Vintage Poster
(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 vintage poster of Bridgeport Symphony Orchestra - Frank Foti conductor brings a moment of history to your wall. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.
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Bridgeport Symphony Orchestra - Frank Foti conductor
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Few concert posters from the Depression era name a conductor and a sponsoring parent group as plainly as this one does: the Bridgeport Symphony Orchestra, under Frank Foti, with the Wilton PTA as sponsor. The Federal Art Project of the Works Progress Administration commissioned posters like this one to publicize cultural events and community programs, and its silkscreen method let artists print bold, multicolor designs cheaply in large runs. The catalog also tags the poster with "bears," an unexpected subject for a concert notice, so it's worth looking closely at the image for the figure that prompted that label.
| Created / published | 1938 |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 print on board (poster) : silkscreen color. |
| Notes | Sponsored by the Wilton PTA. Work Projects Administration Poster Collection (Library of Congress). · Federal Art Project sponsor. |
| Subjects | Concerts--Connecticut--Bridgeport--1930-1940. Orchestras--Connecticut--Bridgeport--1930-1940. Bears--1930-1940. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Work Projects Administration Poster Collection |
| Original scan | 2,714 × 4,096 px · prints to 9 × 14 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | 244_Bridgeport_Symphony_Orc_1938 |
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