Water colors WPA artists of New York Ottumwa Art Center / designed & made by Iowa Ar – 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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This vintage poster of Water colors WPA artists of New York Ottumwa Art Center / designed & made by Iowa Ar brings a moment of history to your wall. An authentic image from the Library of Congress, it carries the weight of the real historical record.
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Water colors WPA artists of New York Ottumwa Art Center / designed & made by Iowa Ar
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A silkscreen poster from 1936 announces an exhibition of watercolors by New York artists working under the Works Progress Administration, shown at the Ottumwa Art Center in Iowa. Unlike many WPA posters that advertised local events, this one was designed and made by Iowa artists, which shows how the Federal Art Project's poster program drew on regional talent to reach small-city audiences. Silkscreen was a fairly new method then, and it gave these posters flat, bold color suited to streets and storefronts. A date stamp on the back, November 8, 1940, shows the sheet was handled and recorded several years after it was printed.
| Created / published | 1936 |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 print on board (poster) : silkscreen color. |
| Notes | Date stamped on verso: Nov 8 1940. Work Projects Administration Poster Collection (Library of Congress). · Federal Art Project sponsor. |
| Subjects | Art--1930-1940. Galleries & museums--Iowa--Ottumwa--1930-1940. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Work Projects Administration Poster Collection |
| Original scan | 981 × 1,536 px · prints to 3 × 5 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | 208_Water_colors_WPA_artist_1936 |
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