Free summer art classes for children Drawing and painting metal craft - sculpture pot – Antique Poster Print
(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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A window into the past: Free summer art classes for children Drawing and painting metal craft - sculpture pot, preserved in this vintage poster. An authentic image from the Library of Congress, it carries the weight of the real historical record.
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Free summer art classes for children Drawing and painting metal craft - sculpture pot
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Few posters from the Federal Art Project's New York program advertised art classes for children as directly as this one, which promotes free summer instruction in drawing, painting, metal craft and sculpture pottery. The poster dates to 1936, when the Works Progress Administration, the New Deal agency that employed artists during the Depression, ran community art centers and classes across the city. Silkscreen printing, a technique the Federal Art Project's poster unit used to produce inexpensive, bold images, gives the design its flat, vivid color. A date stamp on the back, April 9, 1938, records when the print was processed, a small clue to how these posters moved through the agency's files.
| Created / published | 1936 |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 print on board (poster) : silkscreen color. |
| Notes | Date stamped on verso: Apr 9 1938. Work Projects Administration Poster Collection (Library of Congress). · Federal Art Project sponsor. |
| Subjects | Art education--New York (State)--New York--1930-1940. Children--Education--New York (State)--New York--1930-1940. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Work Projects Administration Poster Collection |
| Original scan | 2,757 × 4,096 px · prints to 9 × 14 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | 92_Free_summer_art_classes_1936 |
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