Exhibition of art by children / Osborn. – 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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Exhibition of art by children / Osborn. comes to life in this vintage poster, reproduced from the original with every detail intact. An authentic image from the Library of Congress, it carries the weight of the real historical record.
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Exhibition of art by children / Osborn.
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The most distinctive thing about this poster is its subject: an exhibition of children's art in Chicago, promoted under the Federal Art Project, the arm of the Works Progress Administration that employed artists during the Great Depression. The silkscreen color print dates to 1936, and its verso carries a later stamp, February 16, 1940, the kind of marking left when a poster passed through a government or library office. Works like this were meant to draw crowds to free or low-cost community exhibitions, and posters of the period often show how the WPA used the medium of silkscreen to produce affordable, eye-catching public notices.
| Created / published | 1936 |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 print on board (poster) : silkscreen color. |
| Notes | Date stamped on verso: Feb 16 1940. Work Projects Administration Poster Collection (Library of Congress). Posters of the WPA / Christopher DeNoon. Los Angeles : Wheatly Press c1987 no. 52 · Federal Art Project sponsor. |
| Subjects | Art exhibitions--Illinois--Chicago--1930-1940. Childrens art--1930-1940. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Work Projects Administration Poster Collection |
| Original scan | 988 × 1,536 px · prints to 3 × 5 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | 110_Exhibition_of_art_by_ch_1936 |
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