Public school art Sioux City Art Center / made by WPA Federal Art Project Iowa. – 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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Public school art Sioux City Art Center / made by WPA Federal Art Project Iowa. comes to life in this vintage poster, reproduced from the original with every detail intact. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.
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Public school art Sioux City Art Center / made by WPA Federal Art Project Iowa.
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This poster promotes a public school art exhibition at the Sioux City Art Center in Iowa, and its subjects include marching bands, which suggests the children's work or the event drew on school music life. The Works Progress Administration's Federal Art Project, which ran from 1935 to 1943, employed artists to make inexpensive posters like this one, and silkscreen was a practical method for printing them in bright, flat color. The date printed on the back of the board, April 12, 1939, places it near the end of the period when the project was producing community posters. The Library of Congress holds the poster in its WPA collection, and it was shown in the library's American Treasures exhibition in 2002 and 2003.
| Created / published | 1936 |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 print on board (poster) : silkscreen color. |
| Notes | Date on verso: Apr 12 1939. Work Projects Administration Poster Collection (Library of Congress). Promotional goal: U.S. K92.1939. Posters of the WPA / Christopher DeNoon. Los Angeles : Wheatly Press c1987 no. 56 Exhibited: American Treasures of the Library of Congress 2002-2003. · Federal Art Project sponsor. |
| Subjects | Marching bands--1930-1940. Art exhibitions--Iowa--Sioux City--1930-1940. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Work Projects Administration Poster Collection |
| Original scan | 1,536 × 923 px · prints to 5 × 3 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | 114_Public_school_art_Sioux_1936 |
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