Special performance festival of American dance featuring An American exodus – 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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Special performance festival of American dance featuring An American exodus comes to life in this vintage poster, reproduced from the original with every detail intact. Sourced directly from the Library of Congress, it represents an authentic piece of documented history.
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Special performance festival of American dance featuring An American exodus
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The poster advertises a special performance festival of American dance in Los Angeles in 1937, with the work *An American Exodus* as its featured piece. Its record names dancers Myra Kinch and Manuel Galea among the people connected with the program. The title points to the Dust Bowl migrations of the 1930s, when families from the Plains states moved west, many to California, in search of work and land. The Federal theater Project, part of the Works Progress Administration, sponsored the event, and its posters were made by artists employed through the same New Deal program. The silkscreen color printing was a practical, inexpensive method well suited to mass-producing these posters.
| Created / published | 1937 |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 print (poster) : silkscreen color. |
| Notes | Work Projects Administration Poster Collection (Library of Congress). · Federal Theatre Project (U.S.) sponsor. |
| Subjects | Kinch Myra. Galea Manuel. Theatrical productions--California--Los Angeles--1930-1940. Dance--California--Los Angeles--1930-1940. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Work Projects Administration Poster Collection |
| Original scan | 2,754 × 4,096 px · prints to 9 × 14 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | 491_Special_performance_fes_1937 |
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