National Art Week Buy your share / designed & made by Iowa Art Program W.P.A. – 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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Few images capture their era like this vintage poster of National Art Week Buy your share / designed & made by Iowa Art Program W.P.A.. 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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Iowa's Federal Art Project produced this poster, and its slogan, "Buy your share," sets it apart from many WPA posters that simply advertised exhibitions. It promoted National Art Week in 1936, a campaign encouraging Americans to buy original art and bring it into their homes. The Depression had hit artists hard, and the Federal Art Project, part of the Works Progress Administration, sought both to employ them and to build public appreciation for their work. The poster's bold silkscreen color and simple lettering reflect the program's wider reliance on affordable, widely distributed graphic design.
| 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 | 982 × 1,536 px · prints to 3 × 5 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | 212_National_Art_Week_Buy_y_1936 |
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