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Federal Art exhibition WPA water colors. – Historic Poster Reproduction

Federal Art exhibition WPA water colors., 1939 — vintage poster
Federal Art exhibition WPA water colors., 1939. Vintage poster from the WPA Posters collection.

(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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Federal Art exhibition WPA water colors. comes to life in this vintage poster, reproduced from the original with every detail intact. The original is held by the Library of Congress, so what you hang is a true record of its time.

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This 1939 poster advertises a watercolor exhibition in Boston, one of the many events the Federal Art Project staged that year. The Project was part of the Works Progress Administration, the New Deal agency that employed artists during the Depression, and its posters were often produced as color screen prints. Such posters were meant to be cheap and eye-catching, so they carried bold lettering and simple imagery that could be read quickly from a street corner or a bulletin board. Pieces like this one also record how public arts programs promoted local culture in cities like Boston during the late 1930s.

Created / published1939
Medium1 print on board (poster) : silkscreen color.
NotesDate stamped on verso: Jan 6 1939. Work Projects Administration Poster Collection (Library of Congress). Posters of the WPA / Christopher DeNoon. Los Angeles : Wheatly Press c1987 no. 35 · Federal Art Project sponsor.
SubjectsArt exhibitions--Massachusetts--Boston--1930-1940.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Work Projects Administration Poster Collection
Original scan1,112 × 1,536 px · prints to 4 × 5 in at 300 dpi
Reference122_Federal_Art_exhibition_1939

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