WPA Federal Music Project of New York City presents free symphony concerts – 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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Few images capture their era like this vintage poster of WPA Federal Music Project of New York City presents free symphony concerts. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.
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WPA Federal Music Project of New York City presents free symphony concerts
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The Federal Music Project was one of the arts units of the Works Progress Administration, the New Deal agency that put unemployed musicians, painters and writers to work during the Depression. This silkscreen poster advertises free symphony concerts staged under its banner in New York City, a program that brought orchestral music to parks, schools and neighborhoods far from the concert halls of midtown. The Federal Art Project printed it between 1936 and 1941, and it stands as an example of the WPA's efforts to make posters both practical notices and works of graphic design. Silkscreen was a relatively new method then, and the bold flat color of its shapes is worth a close look.
| Created / published | 1936 |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 print on board (poster) : silkscreen color. |
| Notes | Work Projects Administration Poster Collection (Library of Congress). · Federal Music Project (U.S.) sponsor. |
| Subjects | Concerts--New York (State)--New York--1930-1950. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Work Projects Administration Poster Collection |
| Original scan | 993 × 1,536 px · prints to 3 × 5 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | 443_WPA_Federal_Music_Proje_1936 |
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