National Art Week Buy your share / designed & made by Iowa Art Program W.P.A. – 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 vintage poster of National Art Week Buy your share / designed & made by Iowa Art Program W.P.A. brings a moment of history to your wall. An authentic image from the Library of Congress, it carries the weight of the real historical record.
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National Art Week Buy your share / designed & made by Iowa Art Program W.P.A.
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Few posters from the WPA's Iowa Art Program carry as direct a sales pitch as this one, which urges viewers to "Buy your share" during National Art Week in 1936. Federal Art Project sponsors used such campaigns to encourage the public to buy works by working artists, at a time when many painters and printmakers had little income. The poster was made in silkscreen, a stencil printing method that the WPA poster program adopted widely because it was inexpensive and allowed flat, bold color. Its blunt, commercial wording shows how the program tried to link the public's appreciation of art with its purchase.
| Created / published | 1936 |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 print on board (poster) : silkscreen color. |
| Notes | Work Projects Administration Poster Collection (Library of Congress). · Federal Art Project sponsor. |
| Subjects | Art--1930-1950. Selling--1930-1950. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Work Projects Administration Poster Collection |
| Original scan | 2,820 × 4,096 px · prints to 9 × 14 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | 213_National_Art_Week_Buy_y_1936 |
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