Works Progress Administration Composers Forum-Laboratory third series Fortnightly con – 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 vintage poster of Works Progress Administration Composers Forum-Laboratory third series Fortnightly con brings a moment of history to your wall. 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 Composers Forum-Laboratory third series Fortnightly con
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Unlike most posters from the Federal Music Project, this one advertises a series devoted to new work: the Composers Forum-Laboratory, a New York program that gave hearings to American composers, many of them little known to the public. The Works Progress Administration funded such concerts during the Depression to keep musicians working while bringing live music to public halls and neighborhoods. Silkscreen posters like this were produced by WPA artists in New York, and the date stamped on the back, December 8, 1937, places it within the run of the third series of fortnightly concerts.
| Created / published | 1937 |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 print on board (poster) : silkscreen color. |
| Notes | Date stamped on verso: Dec 8 1937. Work Projects Administration Poster Collection (Library of Congress). Posters of the WPA / Christopher DeNoon. Los Angeles : Wheatly Press c1987 no. 248 · Federal Music Project (U.S.) sponsor. |
| Subjects | Concerts--New York (State)--New York--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 | 434_Works_Progress_Administ_1937 |
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