Caesar and Cleopatra, by G.B. Shaw ... Hollywood Playhouse – Vintage Poster
![Caesar and Cleopatra, by G.B. Shaw ... Hollywood Playhouse, [California : Federal Art Project, 1938] — vintage poster](https://images.jameslantos.com/img/76/76e075714011-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 Caesar and Cleopatra, by G.B. Shaw ... Hollywood Playhouse. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.
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Caesar and Cleopatra, by G.B. Shaw ... Hollywood Playhouse
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Shaw's comedy about Julius Caesar and the young Egyptian queen, first written in 1898, gets a bold, flat-color treatment here as a silkscreen advertising a Hollywood Playhouse production. It was made in California in 1938 under the Federal Art Project, part of the Works Progress Administration, which employed artists during the Depression to produce posters for local theaters and public events. Silkscreen let those small units print large runs cheaply, and the simplified shapes and limited palette typical of the WPA style were meant to catch the eye from a street corner. The poster now sits in the Library of Congress's WPA collection, a record of how New Deal artists promoted live theater in Los Angeles.
| Created / published | [California : Federal Art Project, 1938] |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 print (poster) : silkscreen, color. |
| Genre | Theatrical posters 1930-1940.Screen prints Color 1930-1940. |
| Notes | Work Projects Administration Poster Collection (Library of Congress). |
| Subjects | Theatrical productions--California--Los Angeles--1930-1940. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 1,142 × 1,438 px · prints to 4 × 5 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-218839 |
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