Posters Federal Art Gallery 50 Beacon St. Boston / RW. – 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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This rare vintage poster captures Posters Federal Art Gallery 50 Beacon St. Boston / RW. in remarkable detail. The original is held by the Library of Congress, so what you hang is a true record of its time.
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Posters Federal Art Gallery 50 Beacon St. Boston / RW.
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A gallery address anchors this one: 50 Beacon Street in Boston, where the Federal Art Gallery promoted its exhibitions through posters like this. The Works Progress Administration's Federal Art Project, which ran from 1935 to 1943, employed artists to design public announcements, and silkscreen was the process that let its workshops print bold, multicolor posters cheaply in large runs. The verso carries a 1938 date stamp, so the sheet was evidently handled or filed two years after its 1936 design date. It belongs to the Library of Congress's WPA Poster Collection, which preserves the program's publicity work.
| Created / published | 1936 |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 print on board (poster) : silkscreen color. |
| Notes | Date stamped on verso: Mar 22 1938. Work Projects Administration Poster Collection (Library of Congress). Posters of the WPA / Christopher DeNoon. Los Angeles: Wheatly Press c1987 no. 41 · Federal Art Project sponsor. |
| Subjects | Art exhibitions--Massachusetts--Boston--1930-1940. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Work Projects Administration Poster Collection |
| Original scan | 987 × 1,536 px · prints to 3 × 5 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | 126_Posters_Federal_Art_Gal_1936 |
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