Counsellor at law Gripping drama by Elmer Rice. – 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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Counsellor at law Gripping drama by Elmer Rice. comes to life in this vintage poster, reproduced from the original with every detail intact. The original is held by the Library of Congress, so what you hang is a true record of its time.
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Counsellor at law Gripping drama by Elmer Rice.
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Elmer Rice's *Counsellor-at-Law* is the play this poster advertises, and its subject is a lawyer in a busy Manhattan practice, not California, which is the region the record's subject tags point to. The Federal theater Project, a New Deal program that put unemployed theater workers on stage across the country, sponsored the production. Its silkscreen posters, made by WPA artists, were designed to be cheap to print and easy to hang in shop windows and public buildings. The poster's bold flat color reflects that practical, mass-distribution purpose as much as it does the artists' style.
| Created / published | 1938 |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 print (poster) : silkscreen color. |
| Notes | Work Projects Administration Poster Collection (Library of Congress). · Rice Elmer 1892-1967. Federal Theatre Project (U.S.) sponsor. |
| Subjects | Theatrical productions--California--1930-1940. Law & legal affairs--California--1930-1940. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Work Projects Administration Poster Collection |
| Original scan | 2,744 × 4,096 px · prints to 9 × 14 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | 708_Counsellor_at_law_Gripp_1938 |
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