Industrial designs by Joe Funk Ottumwa Art Center / designed & made by Iowa Art Prog – Historic Poster Reproduction
(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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Industrial designs by Joe Funk Ottumwa Art Center / designed & made by Iowa Art Prog comes to life in this vintage poster, reproduced from the original with every detail intact. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.
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Industrial designs by Joe Funk Ottumwa Art Center / designed & made by Iowa Art Prog
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This silkscreen poster advertises an exhibition of industrial designs held at the Ottumwa Art Center in Iowa, a small city on the Des Moines River. It was designed and made by the Iowa Art Program, one of the state units of the Federal Art Project, part of the Works Progress Administration (WPA). Those New Deal programs employed artists during the Great Depression and often used silkscreen to produce inexpensive posters for public events. The poster's date stamp of October 1940 on the back suggests it was kept or filed years after its 1936 design.
| Created / published | 1936 |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 print on board (poster) : silkscreen color. |
| Notes | Date stamped on verso: Oct 29 1940. Work Projects Administration Poster Collection (Library of Congress). · Federal Art Project sponsor. |
| Subjects | Exhibitions--Iowa--Ottumwa--1930-1940. Industrial design drawings--1930-1940. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Work Projects Administration Poster Collection |
| Original scan | 2,790 × 4,096 px · prints to 9 × 14 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | 572_Industrial_designs_by_J_1936 |
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