Exhibition Illinois Federal Art Project Works Progress Administration / B.S. – Antique Poster 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.)
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Step back in time with Exhibition Illinois Federal Art Project Works Progress Administration / B.S., a vintage poster rich in period detail. Sourced directly from the Library of Congress, it represents an authentic piece of documented history.
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Exhibition Illinois Federal Art Project Works Progress Administration / B.S.
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Few posters from the Works Progress Administration name a state project as directly as this one, which announces an exhibition of Illinois Federal Art Project work with New York listed as the venue. The print is a silkscreen, a process the WPA poster units favored because it allowed inexpensive runs of bold, flat color for public notices. The record also credits the sculptor Maurice Glickman, a reminder that the Federal Art Project employed painters, sculptors and graphic designers alike. Posters like this one carried news of regional artists to city audiences during the Depression, when federal support kept many working artists paid.
| Created / published | 1936 |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 print on board (poster) : silkscreen color. |
| Notes | Date stamped on verso: Apr 9 1938. Work Projects Administration Poster Collection (Library of Congress). · Glickman Maurice sculptor. |
| Subjects | Art exhibitions--New York (State)--New York--1930-1940. Illinois--1930-1940. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Work Projects Administration Poster Collection |
| Original scan | 2,697 × 4,096 px · prints to 9 × 14 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | 159_Exhibition_Illinois_Fed_1936 |
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