Exhibition of paintings - Federal Art Project Works Progress Administration Illinois – Vintage Poster
(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: Exhibition of paintings - Federal Art Project Works Progress Administration Illinois, preserved in this vintage poster. An authentic image from the Library of Congress, it carries the weight of the real historical record.
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Exhibition of paintings - Federal Art Project Works Progress Administration Illinois
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This 1936 poster announces an exhibition of paintings in Illinois and was issued under the Federal Art Project of the Works Progress Administration. The Federal Art Project employed out-of-work artists on murals, easel paintings and public announcements, and its state units often produced posters like this one by silkscreen, a stencil process that allowed designers to print bold, flat areas of color in small runs. Today the piece survives mainly in the Library of Congress's Work Projects Administration Poster Collection, where it documents both the New Deal's support for artists and the graphic style of the 1930s.
| Created / published | 1936 |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 print on board (poster) : silkscreen color. |
| Notes | Work Projects Administration Poster Collection (Library of Congress). Posters of the WPA / Christopher DeNoon. Los Angeles : Wheatly Press c1987 no. 48 · Federal Art Project sponsor. |
| Subjects | Art exhibitions--Illinois--1930-1950. Paintings--1930-1950. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Work Projects Administration Poster Collection |
| Original scan | 1,030 × 1,536 px · prints to 3 × 5 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | 102_Exhibition_of_paintings_1936 |
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