W.P.A. Federal Art Project of Illinois--Sculpture exhibition - 433 East Erie Street-- – 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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Few images capture their era like this vintage poster of W.P.A. Federal Art Project of Illinois--Sculpture exhibition - 433 East Erie Street--. The original is held by the Library of Congress, so what you hang is a true record of its time.
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W.P.A. Federal Art Project of Illinois--Sculpture exhibition - 433 East Erie Street--
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Few posters from the Illinois project name a location as plainly as this one: 433 East Erie Street in Chicago, where a sculpture exhibition ran from April 10 to May 12, 1939. The Federal Art Project, one of the Works Progress Administration's New Deal programs, employed artists, teachers and craftsmen during the Depression and used posters like this to publicize its exhibitions and classes. Printed as a color silkscreen, the poster reflects the technique the project's workshops used to produce bold graphics in quantity. A date stamp on the back reads April 29, 1939, which falls partway through the exhibition's run.
| Medium | 1 print on board (poster) : silkscreen color. |
|---|---|
| Notes | Date stamped on verso: Apr 29 1939. Work Projects Administration Poster Collection (Library of Congress). Posters of the WPA / Christopher DeNoon. Los Angeles : Wheatly Press c1987 no. 67 · Federal Art Project sponsor. |
| Subjects | Modeling (Sculpture)--Illinois--1930-1940. Art exhibitions--Illinois--1930-1940. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Work Projects Administration Poster Collection |
| Original scan | 990 × 1,536 px · prints to 3 × 5 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | 101_WPA_Federal_Art_Project_ |
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