Free art classes for children & adults Under direction of Federal Art Project, WPA / h. – Vintage Poster
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(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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Free art classes for children & adults Under direction of Federal Art Project, WPA / h. 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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Free art classes for children & adults Under direction of Federal Art Project, WPA / h.
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This 1936 silkscreen poster announces free art classes for both children and adults, run under the Federal Art Project, one of the arts units of the Works Progress Administration (later renamed the Work Projects Administration). The Federal Art Project, created in 1935, put unemployed artists to work during the Great Depression, and its New York poster unit helped develop the silkscreen process, which allowed inexpensive, bold, multicolor posters. Posters like this one carried public information about community programs, and this example shows how the WPA used classes and public art instruction to bring art into everyday neighborhood life.
| Created / published | [New York : Federal Art Project, between 1936 and 1941] |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 print on board (poster) : silkscreen, color. |
| Genre | Posters 1930-1950.Screen prints Color 1930-1950. |
| Notes | Work Projects Administration Poster Collection (Library of Congress). |
| Subjects | Art education--New York (State)--New York--1930-1950. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 997 × 1,536 px · prints to 3 × 5 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-173420 |
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