Westfield Athenaeum - Federal Art Project water color show – 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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Westfield Athenaeum - Federal Art Project water color show
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Few things on this board are as specific to a single town as this silkscreen announcement for a watercolor show at the Westfield Athenaeum in Westfield, Massachusetts. The Federal Art Project, one unit of the Works Progress Administration, employed artists during the Depression and sponsored exhibitions like this one in towns across the country. Its silkscreen unit, centered in New York, turned the process into an inexpensive way to produce bold, flat-colored posters, and the date stamped on the back, March 1937, suggests the print was filed or circulated a few months after it was made.
| Created / published | 1936 |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 print on board (poster) : silkscreen color. |
| Notes | Date stamped on verso: Mar 20 1937. Work Projects Administration Poster Collection (Library of Congress). · Federal Art Project sponsor. |
| Subjects | Art exhibitions--Massachusetts--Westfield--1930-1940. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Work Projects Administration Poster Collection |
| Original scan | 2,767 × 4,096 px · prints to 9 × 14 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | 146_Westfield_Athenaeum_Fe_1936 |
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