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WPA exhibition water colors [and] prints Federal Art Gallery / HG [monogram]. – Vintage Poster

WPA exhibition water colors [and] prints Federal Art Gallery / HG [monogram]., 1936 — vintage poster
WPA exhibition water colors [and] prints Federal Art Gallery / HG [monogram]., 1936. Vintage poster from the WPA Posters collection.

(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 WPA exhibition water colors [and] prints Federal Art Gallery / HG [monogram]. 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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WPA exhibition water colors [and] prints Federal Art Gallery / HG [monogram].

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The Federal Art Gallery in Boston is named plainly on this poster, which announced an exhibition of watercolors and prints in 1936. It is a silkscreen print in flat, layered color, a method the Federal Art Project's poster unit used because it could produce bold images cheaply in large runs for display in shops and public buildings. The monogram "HG" marks it as the work of an individual artist within the project rather than a commercial job. A date stamp on the back, May 5, 1938, shows the sheet was still being handled two years after the show it advertised.

Created / published1936
Medium1 print on board (poster) : silkscreen color.
NotesDate stamped on verso: May 5 1938. Work Projects Administration Poster Collection (Library of Congress). · Federal Art Project sponsor.
SubjectsArt exhibitions--Massachusetts--Boston--1930-1940. Printmaking--1930-1940. Watercolors--1930-1940.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Work Projects Administration Poster Collection
Original scan2,763 × 4,096 px · prints to 9 × 14 in at 300 dpi
Reference130_WPA_exhibition_water_co_1936

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