A Federal Theatre production festival of American dance featuring An American exodus – Historic Poster Reproduction
(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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A Federal Theatre production festival of American dance featuring An American exodus
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This 1938 silkscreen poster advertises a Federal theater Project dance festival in Los Angeles, with the work *An American Exodus* as its featured piece. The title points to the mass migration of Dust Bowl families from the Plains states toward California during the Depression, a subject that drew many artists of the period. The Federal theater Project, part of the New Deal, employed out-of-work performers and staged productions across the country, and its dance units often brought modern choreography to working audiences. The poster names dancers Myra Kinch and Manuel Galea, and it is a useful record of how the program promoted dance alongside theater.
| Created / published | 1938 |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 print (poster) : silkscreen color. |
| Notes | Work Projects Administration Poster Collection (Library of Congress). · Federal Theatre Project (U.S.) sponsor. |
| Subjects | Kinch Myra. Galea Manuel. Theatrical productions--California--Los Angeles--1930-1940. Dance--California--Los Angeles--1930-1940. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Work Projects Administration Poster Collection |
| Original scan | 2,724 × 4,096 px · prints to 9 × 14 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | 489_A_Federal_Theatre_produ_1938 |
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