Habit by Charles C. Stewart – Vintage Poster Wall Art
(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 Habit by Charles C. Stewart. An authentic image from the Library of Congress, it carries the weight of the real historical record.
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Habit by Charles C. Stewart
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Most posters in this collection advertise plays, concerts, or exhibitions, but this one stands apart as a silkscreen advertisement for *Habit*, a Federal theater Project production in California in 1937. The Federal theater Project, part of the Works Progress Administration, put unemployed actors, directors, and stage crews back to work from 1935 until Congress ended it in 1939. Its California units produced plays for local audiences, and their posters were often made with silkscreen, a method that let artists use flat, bold areas of color that were cheap to print in quantity. The poster's artist, Charles C. Stewart, worked within that style, which was built for quick reading from a street corner or a shop window.
| Created / published | 1937 |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 print (poster) : silkscreen color. |
| Notes | Work Projects Administration Poster Collection (Library of Congress). · Federal Theatre Project (U.S.) sponsor. |
| Subjects | Theatrical productions--California--1930-1940. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Work Projects Administration Poster Collection |
| Original scan | 2,807 × 4,096 px · prints to 9 × 14 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | 825_Habit_by_Charles_C_Stew_1937 |
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