January – Historic Poster Reproduction
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(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 vintage poster of January brings a moment of history to your wall. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.
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January
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This January print stands out for its reindeer, which appear alongside a blizzard in a scene that pairs animals with the harshest weather of the year. It is a silkscreen, a color process the Federal Art Project of the Works Progress Administration used in the late 1930s to make inexpensive posters and calendar art, employing artists during the Depression. The image comes from a series of monthly designs, and its catalog record places it in the Christopher DeNoon volume on WPA posters, a reminder of how the program turned ordinary seasonal themes into bold, flat graphic images meant for wide public display.
| Created / published | [1938] |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 print : silkscreen, color. |
| Genre | Calendars 1930-1940.Screen prints Color 1930-1940. |
| Notes | Posters of the WPA / Christopher DeNoon. Los Angeles : Wheatly Press, c1987, no. 316 |
| Subjects | Blizzards--1930-1940. Winter--1930-1940. Reindeer--1930-1940. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 3,771 × 4,696 px · prints to 13 × 16 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-221163 |
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