July – Historic Poster Reproduction
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(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.)
Description
This rare vintage poster captures July in remarkable detail. An authentic image from the Library of Congress, it carries the weight of the real historical record.
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Among the months in a WPA calendar series, July stands out for its subject: a summer scene of sunbathing and leisure, rather than the work, civic, or public health themes that filled much of the program's poster output. The Federal Art Project used silkscreen, a method suited to bold, flat color, to make inexpensive prints that could reach a wide public, and the calendar format carried such images into homes and offices. The print is catalogued in DeNoon's 1987 survey *Posters of the WPA*, which documents the program's design work across the decade.
| Created / published | [1938] |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 print : silkscreen, color. |
| Genre | Calendars 1930-1940.Screen prints Color 1930-1940. |
| Notes | Posters of the WPA / Christopher DeNoon. Los Angeles : Wheatly Press, c1987, no. 316 |
| Subjects | Sunbathing--1930-1940. Leisure--1930-1940. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 3,781 × 4,715 px · prints to 13 × 16 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-221169 |
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