WPA national print exhibition Federal Art Gallery – Vintage Poster Wall Art
(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
This rare vintage poster captures WPA national print exhibition Federal Art Gallery in remarkable detail. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.
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WPA national print exhibition Federal Art Gallery
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The subject here is an exhibition of national prints at the Federal Art Gallery in Boston, announced in a silkscreen poster from 1936. Its design shows printmaking equipment, a detail that points to the medium the show celebrated. The Federal Art Project, part of the Works Progress Administration, used silkscreen because it was inexpensive and well suited to bold, flat color, and it helped put a large body of public art into circulation during the Depression. A date stamp on the back, August 31, 1937, records when the poster was handled after its original printing.
| Created / published | 1936 |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 print on board (poster) : silkscreen color. |
| Notes | Date stamped on verso: Aug 31 1937. Work Projects Administration Poster Collection (Library of Congress). Posters of the WPA / Christopher DeNoon. Los Angeles : Wheatly Press c1987 no. 37 · Federal Art Project sponsor. |
| Subjects | Art exhibitions--Massachusetts--Boston--1930-1940. Printmaking equipment--1930-1940. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Work Projects Administration Poster Collection |
| Original scan | 988 × 1,536 px · prints to 3 × 5 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | 138_WPA_national_print_exhi_1936 |
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