The critics prize play of 1937 Maxwell Andersons fantastic comedy High tor – 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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A window into the past: The critics prize play of 1937 Maxwell Andersons fantastic comedy High tor, preserved in this vintage poster. An authentic image from the Library of Congress, it carries the weight of the real historical record.
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The critics prize play of 1937 Maxwell Andersons fantastic comedy High tor
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The poster advertises *High Tor*, the 1937 fantasy comedy that won the New York Drama Critics' Circle award as the season's best play. Maxwell Anderson's story follows a Hudson Valley mountaineer who refuses to sell his land to developers and is visited by the ghosts of old Dutch sailors. This California production was staged under the Federal theater Project, the Works Progress Administration program that put unemployed theater workers on stage across the country. The silkscreen color process was a common method of the WPA poster division, which used it to make eye-catching notices on small budgets.
| Created / published | 1937 |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 print (poster) : silkscreen color. |
| Notes | Work Projects Administration Poster Collection (Library of Congress). · Anderson Maxwell 1888-1959. Federal Theatre Project (U.S.) sponsor. |
| Subjects | Theatrical productions--California--1930-1940. Comedies--1930-1940. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Work Projects Administration Poster Collection |
| Original scan | 2,748 × 4,096 px · prints to 9 × 14 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | 380_The_critics_prize_play_1937 |
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