Exhibition - oils & watercolors, Federal Art Gallery Federal Art Project, Works Progress Administration. – Vintage Poster
![Exhibition - oils & watercolors, Federal Art Gallery Federal Art Project, Works Progress Administration., N.Y.C. : WPA Federal Art Project, [between 1936 and 1938] — vintage poster](https://images.jameslantos.com/img/2f/2fe4262c5fe3-L.webp)
(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 rare vintage poster captures Exhibition - oils & watercolors, Federal Art Gallery Federal Art Project, Works Progress Administration. in remarkable detail. The original is held by the Library of Congress, so what you hang is a true record of its time.
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Exhibition - oils & watercolors, Federal Art Gallery Federal Art Project, Works Progress Administration.
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Advertising an exhibition of oils and watercolors at the Federal Art Gallery in New York City, this silkscreen poster was produced by the Federal Art Project, one of the arts programs of the Works Progress Administration. The project's poster unit used silkscreen to turn exhibition notices, public health messages and theater announcements into bold, flat-color designs that could be printed cheaply in large runs. A September 2, 1938, date stamp on the back suggests the sheet was in circulation or on file that year, and a 1987 study of WPA posters lists it as number 47.
| Created / published | N.Y.C. : WPA Federal Art Project, [between 1936 and 1938] |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 print (poster) : silkscreen, color. |
| Genre | Exhibition posters 1930-1940.Screen prints Color 1930-1940. |
| Notes | Date stamped on verso: Sep 2 1938. Work Projects Administration Poster Collection (Library of Congress). Posters of the WPA / Christopher DeNoon. Los Angeles : Wheatly Press, c1987, no. 47 |
| Subjects | Art exhibitions--New York (State)--New York--1930-1940. Paintings--1930-1940. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 5,030 × 3,374 px · prints to 17 × 11 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-173264 |
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