Fruit Store – Antique 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.)
Description
This rare vintage poster captures Fruit Store in remarkable detail. Sourced directly from the Library of Congress, it represents an authentic piece of documented history.
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Lead with what sets this one apart: a New York City fruit store, rendered in color silkscreen on board, which places the scene in a busy urban marketplace rather than an orchard or farm. The work dates to about 1941 and was produced under the Federal Art Project, the New Deal program that employed artists during the Depression and encouraged printmaking as an affordable, widely distributed art form. Silkscreen posters from the period often showed everyday commerce and working life, and a produce shop like this one reflects the neighborhood grocer's central place in city food supply. The apples on the board point to the broader theme of the set, while the setting shows how such goods reached ordinary buyers.
| Created / published | c. 1941 |
|---|---|
| Medium | print on board, poster, silkscreen, color |
| Notes | NYC, Federal Art Project |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 950 × 1,223 px · prints to 3 × 4 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | 4 |
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