Exhibition of work by art teachers on the Federal Art Project – Historic Poster Reproduction
(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: Exhibition of work by art teachers on the Federal Art Project, preserved in this vintage poster. Sourced directly from the Library of Congress, it represents an authentic piece of documented history.
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Exhibition of work by art teachers on the Federal Art Project
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Advertising an exhibition of work by art teachers employed on the Federal Art Project, this 1938 New York silkscreen puts the spotlight on the instructors who taught and made art themselves. The Federal Art Project, founded in 1935 under the Works Progress Administration, gave artists paid work during the Great Depression, and its poster division turned silkscreen into a distinctive public art form with bold flat color and simple lettering. Posters like this one were pasted on walls and storefronts to draw crowds to community exhibitions, and the date stamped on the back, September 2, 1938, hints at how quickly such notices circulated.
| Created / published | 1938 |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 print on board (poster) : silkscreen color. |
| Notes | Date stamped on verso: Sep 2 1938. Work Projects Administration Poster Collection (Library of Congress). Posters of the WPA / Christopher DeNoon. Los Angeles : Wheatly Press c1987 no. 75 · Glickman Maurice sculptor. |
| Subjects | Art exhibitions--New York (State)--New York--1930-1940. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Work Projects Administration Poster Collection |
| Original scan | 980 × 1,536 px · prints to 3 × 5 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | 162_Exhibition_of_work_by_a_1938 |
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