WPA paintings Federal Art Gallery 50 Beacon St. Boston – 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 WPA paintings Federal Art Gallery 50 Beacon St. Boston. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.
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WPA paintings Federal Art Gallery 50 Beacon St. Boston
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Promoting a painting exhibition at the Federal Art Gallery on Beacon Street, this poster is set apart by its Boston address, on the street that runs along Beacon Hill past the Massachusetts State House. It was produced under the Works Progress Administration's Federal Art Project, which from 1935 to 1943 employed artists on murals, easel paintings and public posters. Many of these posters were made by silkscreen, a low-cost method that allowed designers to print bold flat color in multiple copies. The result is a useful record of how New Deal arts programs advertised their own exhibitions to the public.
| Created / published | 1936 |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 print on board (poster) : silkscreen color. |
| Notes | Date stamped on verso: Oct 9 1937. Work Projects Administration Poster Collection (Library of Congress). · Federal Art Project sponsor. |
| Subjects | Art exhibitions--Massachusetts--Boston--1930-1940. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Work Projects Administration Poster Collection |
| Original scan | 2,809 × 4,096 px · prints to 9 × 14 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | 140_WPA_paintings_Federal_A_1936 |
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