Free instruction for children in painting & drawing / nbs. – 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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Few images capture their era like this vintage poster of Free instruction for children in painting & drawing / nbs.. Sourced directly from the Library of Congress, it represents an authentic piece of documented history.
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Free instruction for children in painting & drawing / nbs.
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Free classes in painting and drawing for children are the subject of this New York City poster, a color silkscreen issued under the Federal Art Project of the Works Progress Administration. The Project was part of the New Deal's effort to put artists back to work during the Depression, and it ran art instruction and community programs across the city. Its poster unit used silkscreen to produce bright, inexpensive announcements that could be printed in quantity and posted in neighborhoods. The poster shows how public arts education for young people was promoted in the late 1930s.
| Created / published | 1936 |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 print on board (poster) : silkscreen color. |
| Notes | Date stamped on verso: Apr 9 1938. Work Projects Administration Poster Collection (Library of Congress). Posters of the WPA / Christopher DeNoon. Los Angeles : Wheatly Press c1987 no. 158 · Federal Art Project sponsor. |
| Subjects | Children--Education--New York (State)--New York--1930-1940. Art education--New York (State)--New York--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 | 90_Free_instruction_for_ch_1936 |
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