Paul Greens House of Connelly [at the] Mayan Theatre – Vintage Poster
![Paul Greens House of Connelly [at the] Mayan Theatre, 1937 — vintage poster](https://images.jameslantos.com/img/6d/6d0c0037edc0-L.webp)
(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 Paul Greens House of Connelly [at the] Mayan Theatre. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.
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Paul Greens House of Connelly [at the] Mayan Theatre
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This silkscreen poster advertises Paul Green's play *The House of Connelly* at the Mayan theater in California, produced in 1937 under the Federal theater Project. Green, a North Carolina playwright who won the Pulitzer Prize for drama in 1927, wrote the play about a Southern family whose fortunes decline after the Civil War. The Federal theater Project, part of the Works Progress Administration, put actors, directors and designers back to work during the Depression and staged productions across the country. Its posters were made by WPA artists, and this one shows the bold flat color and hand-cut stencil style typical of that workshop.
| Created / published | 1937 |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 print (poster) : silkscreen color. |
| Notes | Work Projects Administration Poster Collection (Library of Congress). · Green Paul 1894-1981. Federal Theatre Project (U.S.) sponsor. |
| Subjects | Theatrical productions--California--1930-1940. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Work Projects Administration Poster Collection |
| Original scan | 4,096 × 2,889 px · prints to 14 × 10 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | 835_Paul_Greens_House_of_Co_1937 |
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