Opening Sunday - January 12 Mason City Art Center / B.F. – 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.)
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Few images capture their era like this vintage poster of Opening Sunday - January 12 Mason City Art Center / B.F.. An authentic image from the Library of Congress, it carries the weight of the real historical record.
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Opening Sunday - January 12 Mason City Art Center / B.F.
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Announcing the opening of the Mason City Art Center on Sunday, January 12, this silkscreen poster was produced in 1941 under the Federal Art Project of the Works Progress Administration. The project's poster division made many such designs in the late 1930s and early 1940s to publicize exhibitions, concerts, libraries and community events, often using flat, bold color that could be printed in large runs. A stamp on the back, dated January 8, 1941, shows the poster was in circulation only days before the opening it advertised. Its catalog subjects also include hands, a motif worth noticing in a poster meant to draw people to a new civic building.
| Created / published | 1941 |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 print on board (poster) : silkscreen color. |
| Notes | Date stamped on verso: Jan 8 1941. Work Projects Administration Poster Collection (Library of Congress). · Federal Art Project sponsor. |
| Subjects | Cultural facilities--Iowa--Mason City--1940-1950. Hands--1940-1950. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Work Projects Administration Poster Collection |
| Original scan | 1,120 × 1,536 px · prints to 4 × 5 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | 481_Opening_Sunday_January_1941 |
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