Opening Ottumwa Art Center 122 E 3rd St. Saturday June 17 – Antique Poster Print
(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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A window into the past: Opening Ottumwa Art Center 122 E 3rd St. Saturday June 17, preserved in this vintage poster. Sourced directly from the Library of Congress, it represents an authentic piece of documented history.
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Opening Ottumwa Art Center 122 E 3rd St. Saturday June 17
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Ottumwa, Iowa, opened a new art center at 122 East 3rd Street on Saturday, June 17, 1939, and this color silkscreen poster announced the event. The Federal Art Project, part of the Works Progress Administration, sponsored it. During the late 1930s the project employed artists to design silkscreen posters that promoted exhibitions, concerts, and classes across the country, and many small towns used them to draw residents to new cultural spaces. The poster's bold flat shapes and hand-cut lettering reflect the screen-printing methods the project relied on.
| Created / published | 1939 |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 print on board (poster) : silkscreen color. |
| Notes | Date stamped on verso: Jun 12 1939. Work Projects Administration Poster Collection (Library of Congress). · Federal Art Project sponsor. |
| Subjects | Art--1930-1940. Galleries & museums--Iowa--Ottumwa--1930-1940. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Work Projects Administration Poster Collection |
| Original scan | 982 × 1,536 px · prints to 3 × 5 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | 207_Opening_Ottumwa_Art_Cen_1939 |
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