WPA Exhibition Water Colors Prints, Federal Art Gallery, Boston – Vintage Poster Wall Art
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Step back in time with WPA Exhibition Water Colors Prints, Federal Art Gallery, Boston, a historic print rich in period detail. It is part of the Snapshots of the Past archive, gathered over 25 years of research.
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WPA Exhibition Water Colors Prints, Federal Art Gallery, Boston
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The particular thing about this one is its setting: a Boston show of Works Progress Administration watercolors, presented under the Federal Art Project's gallery program. The WPA, created in 1935 as part of the New Deal, employed out-of-work artists, and its Federal Art Project put painters, printmakers and watercolorists to work producing murals, posters and easel pictures for public buildings and community spaces. Exhibitions like this one brought that work before city audiences during the Depression years, when government support for the arts was both a relief measure and a bet on public culture. Look closely at the color and the loose, transparent handling typical of watercolor, which shows how the artists were experimenting with everyday Boston subjects.
| Original scan | 1,500 × 2,221 px · prints to 5 × 7 in at 300 dpi |
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| Reference | 17 |
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