Index of American Design – 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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A window into the past: Index of American Design, preserved in this vintage poster. Sourced directly from the Library of Congress, it represents an authentic piece of documented history.
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The Index of American Design was a Federal Art Project initiative, launched in 1935 under the Works Progress Administration, that set out to document decorative arts, folk crafts and everyday objects from across the country. This silkscreen poster from 1936 promotes an exhibition of that material in Illinois, and its subject list pairs art exhibitions with textiles, a reminder of how much of the project's effort went into cataloguing fabrics, furniture and household wares. The Federal Art Project hired artists to make watercolor records of these objects, and the poster's bold color blocks reflect the screen-printing techniques the WPA poster units used to publicize such events.
| Created / published | 1936 |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 print on board (poster) : silkscreen color. |
| Notes | Work Projects Administration Poster Collection (Library of Congress). Posters of the WPA / Christopher DeNoon. Los Angeles : Wheatly Press c1987 no. 63 · Federal Art Project sponsor. |
| Subjects | Art exhibitions--Illinois--1930-1940. Textiles--1930-1940. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Work Projects Administration Poster Collection |
| Original scan | 1,032 × 1,536 px · prints to 3 × 5 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | 99_Index_of_American_Desig_1936 |
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