April – Vintage Poster Wall Art
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(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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Step back in time with April, a vintage poster rich in period detail. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.
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Rendered in silkscreen, this April design is a calendar poster from the Works Progress Administration's Federal Art Project, a Depression-era program that employed artists to make inexpensive public art. Instead of blossoms, its subject is spring weather: trees, heavy clouds, and falling rain fill the composition with a moody, rain-soaked character. Screen printing allowed bold, flat areas of color to be produced in quantity, and posters like this one helped bring modern graphic design into everyday public spaces. The series is catalogued in Christopher DeNoon's *Posters of the WPA*.
| Created / published | [1938] |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 print : silkscreen, color. |
| Genre | Calendars 1930-1940.Screen prints Color 1930-1940. |
| Notes | Posters of the WPA / Christopher DeNoon. Los Angeles : Wheatly Press, c1987, no. 316 |
| Subjects | Painting--1930-1940. Trees--1930-1940. Clouds--1930-1940. Rain--1930-1940. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 3,771 × 4,710 px · prints to 13 × 16 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-221166 |
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