WPA Index of American Design exhibition Watercolor renderings of crewel embroidery. – 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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This rare vintage poster captures WPA Index of American Design exhibition Watercolor renderings of crewel embroidery. in remarkable detail. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.
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WPA Index of American Design exhibition Watercolor renderings of crewel embroidery.
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Crewel embroidery, rendered in watercolor, is the subject of this 1936 silkscreen poster for an exhibition in Boston, Massachusetts. The Index of American Design, a Federal Art Project unit, paid artists to document surviving American decorative arts, including colonial-era textiles, by painting them with close attention to stitch, color, and pattern. Posters like this one were printed by the Federal Art Project's silkscreen workshops to advertise its events and exhibitions. Crewel work, with its wool yarn on linen, was a common household craft in New England, so the subject links the poster to the region's own history. The date stamped on the back, January 1939, falls several years after the exhibition was announced.
| Created / published | 1936 |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 print on board (poster) : silkscreen color. |
| Notes | Date stamped on verso: Jan 27 1939. Work Projects Administration Poster Collection (Library of Congress). · Federal Art Project sponsor. |
| Subjects | Art exhibitions--Massachusetts--Boston--1930-1940. Embroidery--1930-1940. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Work Projects Administration Poster Collection |
| Original scan | 2,760 × 4,096 px · prints to 9 × 14 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | 137_WPA_Index_of_American_D_1936 |
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