WPA women painters Federal Art Gallery 50 Beacon St. Boston / RW(?) [monogram]. – Vintage Poster
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(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 WPA women painters Federal Art Gallery 50 Beacon St. Boston / RW(?) [monogram]. in remarkable detail. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.
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WPA women painters Federal Art Gallery 50 Beacon St. Boston / RW(?) [monogram].
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A poster advertising an exhibition of women painters at the Federal Art Gallery in Boston stands out among the city's color prints for its purpose: it promotes a show rather than depicting a place or person. It was produced under the Works Progress Administration's Federal Art Project, which employed artists during the Depression and made posters for exhibitions, concerts, and public health campaigns across the country. Many of these posters were made by screen printing, which used flat, bold areas of color and lettering that could be read quickly from a street corner. Worth noticing is how the design balances simple shapes with the text, so that the exhibition announcement itself becomes part of the artwork.
| Created / published | 1936 |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 print on board (poster) : silkscreen color. |
| Notes | Date stamped on verso: Feb 23 1938. Work Projects Administration Poster Collection (Library of Congress). Attributed to Russell W. West. Posters of the WPA / Christopher DeNoon. Los Angeles : Wheatly Press c1987 no. 73 · Federal Art Project sponsor. |
| Subjects | Art exhibitions--Massachusetts--Boston--1930-1940. Women--1930-1940. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Work Projects Administration Poster Collection |
| Original scan | 973 × 1,536 px · prints to 3 × 5 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | 142_WPA_women_painters_Fede_1936 |
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