Museum of science & industry / galic. – 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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This rare vintage poster captures Museum of science & industry / galic. in remarkable detail. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.
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Chicago's Museum of Science and Industry is the subject here, shown in a 1936 silkscreen poster from the Federal Art Project of the Works Progress Administration. The museum occupies the Palace of Fine Arts, a neoclassical building left over from the 1893 World's Columbian Exposition in Jackson Park, and it opened to the public in 1933 as a hands-on institution for science and industry. Posters like this one were part of the WPA's effort to put artists to work while promoting public cultural sites, and the flat color blocks of silkscreen were a common technique in the program. The date stamp on the back of the board shows it was filed in 1940, years after it was printed.
| Created / published | 1936 |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 print on board (poster) : silkscreen color. |
| Notes | Date stamped on verso: Feb 10 1940. Work Projects Administration Poster Collection (Library of Congress). Posters of the WPA / Christopher DeNoon. Los Angeles: Wheatly Press c1987 no. 174 · Federal Art Project sponsor. |
| Subjects | Museum of Science and Industry (Chicago Ill.) Galleries & museums--Illinois--Chicago--1930-1940. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Work Projects Administration Poster Collection |
| Original scan | 988 × 1,536 px · prints to 3 × 5 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | 7_Museum_of_science_indu_1936 |
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