WPA Federal Art Project exhibition - mural studies – Vintage Poster
(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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This vintage poster of WPA Federal Art Project exhibition - mural studies brings a moment of history to your wall. The original is held by the Library of Congress, so what you hang is a true record of its time.
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WPA Federal Art Project exhibition - mural studies
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A color poster advertising an exhibition of mural studies, produced under the Federal Art Project of the Works Progress Administration, sets this piece apart from the other Boston prints on the board. The Federal Art Project (1935 to 1943) gave unemployed artists paid work, and its poster units often used the silkscreen process, which made bold, flat color practical for public notices. Posters like this one carried the sketches and planning work behind large murals meant for schools, post offices and other public buildings, so they show how the artists imagined those commissions before they were painted.
| 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). Posters of the WPA / Christopher DeNoon. Los Angeles : Wheatly Press c1987 no. 3 · Federal Art Project sponsor. |
| Subjects | Art exhibitions--Massachusetts--Boston--1930-1940. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Work Projects Administration Poster Collection |
| Original scan | 983 × 1,536 px · prints to 3 × 5 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | 133_WPA_Federal_Art_Project_1936 |
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