Works Progress Administration presents an exhibition of selected skills of the unempl – 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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Works Progress Administration presents an exhibition of selected skills of the unempl comes to life in this vintage poster, reproduced from the original with every detail intact. The original is held by the Library of Congress, so what you hang is a true record of its time.
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Works Progress Administration presents an exhibition of selected skills of the unempl
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Few posters on this board announce an exhibition of the unemployed's own skills, and this 1936 silkscreen does so directly, promising a showing of selected work by out-of-work New Yorkers. The Federal theater Project is named as sponsor, and the record also credits Arent Arthur, though the poster's designer is not fully documented. The show sits within the WPA's wider effort to keep artists and craftspeople working during the Depression, when relief employment extended to making art for public view. A September 2, 1938 date stamp on the back shows the sheet was filed and handled two years after it was printed.
| Created / published | 1936 |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 print on board (poster) : silkscreen color. |
| Notes | Date stamped on verso: Sep 2 1938. Work Projects Administration Poster Collection (Library of Congress). · Arent Arthur. Federal Theatre Project (New York N.Y.) sponsor. |
| Subjects | Art exhibitions--New York (State)--New York--1930-1940. Unemployed--New York (State)--New York--1930-1940. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Work Projects Administration Poster Collection |
| Original scan | 2,700 × 4,096 px · prints to 9 × 14 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | 170_Works_Progress_Administ_1936 |
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