Print making A new tradition featuring original color lithography. – 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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Print making A new tradition featuring original color lithography. comes to life in this vintage poster, reproduced from the original with every detail intact. Sourced directly from the Library of Congress, it represents an authentic piece of documented history.
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Print making A new tradition featuring original color lithography.
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Print making: A New Tradition" is a 1936 poster that promotes original color prints as a fresh artistic practice. Issued under the Federal Art Project, a New Deal relief program that employed artists during the Depression, it reflects the effort to bring art to public view. The record identifies the medium as silkscreen, a stencil process that allowed designers to print bold flat color in limited runs at modest cost. A March 1941 date stamp on the back shows that this copy stayed in circulation years after it was first printed.
| Created / published | 1936 |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 print on board (poster) : silkscreen color. |
| Notes | Date stamped on verso: Mar 24 1941. Work Projects Administration Poster Collection (Library of Congress). Posters of the WPA / Christopher DeNoon. Los Angeles : Wheatly Press c1987 no. 282 · Federal Art Project sponsor. |
| Subjects | Printmaking--New York (State)--New York--1930-1950. Lithography--1930-1950. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Work Projects Administration Poster Collection |
| Original scan | 974 × 1,536 px · prints to 3 × 5 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | 569_Print_making_A_new_trad_1936 |
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