Exhibition--Art by children – Vintage Poster
(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 window into the past: Exhibition--Art by children, preserved in this vintage poster. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.
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Exhibition--Art by children
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This silkscreen poster announces an exhibition of art made by children, and its subject line places the show in Chicago during the 1930s. It was produced under the Federal Art Project, the arm of the Works Progress Administration (later renamed the Work Projects Administration in 1939) that employed artists during the Great Depression and turned out posters for civic events, museums and community programs. Silkscreen was a method the project's printmakers developed into a cheap, durable way to reproduce bold graphic designs in large runs. Posters like this one show how public agencies used the medium to bring children's creativity before wide audiences.
| Created / published | 1936 |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 print on board (poster) : silkscreen color. |
| Notes | Date stamped on verso: Feb 16 1940. Work Projects Administration Poster Collection (Library of Congress). Posters of the WPA / Christopher DeNoon. Los Angeles: Wheatly Press c1987 no. 53. · Federal Art Project sponsor. |
| Subjects | Art exhibitions--Illinois--Chicago--1930-1940. Children--Arts & crafts--1930-1940. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Work Projects Administration Poster Collection |
| Original scan | 995 × 1,536 px · prints to 3 × 5 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | 98_ExhibitionArt_by_childr_1936 |
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