October – Antique Print
(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
October comes to life in this historic print, 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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October
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The title points to the autumn harvest, when apples ripen across much of the Northeast. The print dates to about 1938 and was made by the Poster Division of the Federal Art Project in New York, one of the New Deal programs that employed artists during the Depression. Leslie Bryan Burroughs designed it as a silkscreen, a stencil process that let WPA artists print bold, flat color in small runs at low cost. Posters like this one show how the program turned ordinary seasonal subjects into affordable public images.
| Created / published | c. 1938 |
|---|---|
| Medium | print, silkscreen, color |
| Notes | Federal Art Project, New York, N.Y. Poster Division. Leslie Bryan Burroughs, artist |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 2,553 × 3,376 px · prints to 9 × 11 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-221172 |
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