Federal Road-show attraction The fool by Channing Pollock – 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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Step back in time with Federal Road-show attraction The fool by Channing Pollock, a vintage poster rich in period detail. The original is held by the Library of Congress, so what you hang is a true record of its time.
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Federal Road-show attraction The fool by Channing Pollock
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This silkscreen poster advertises a Federal theater Project road show of Channing Pollock's *The Fool*, a play that first reached Broadway in 1922. Its subject tag places the production in California, where the Federal theater Project sent touring companies to smaller towns and communities that rarely saw live drama. Created in 1936 under the Works Progress Administration, the poster belongs to a federal effort that put unemployed actors, designers and craftspeople to work. The bold color blocks typical of WPA silkscreen work make it a good example of how the program used commercial-style advertising to bring theater to a wide public.
| Created / published | 1936 |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 print (poster) : silkscreen color. |
| Notes | Work Projects Administration Poster Collection (Library of Congress). · Pollock Channing 1880-1946. Federal Theatre Project (U.S.) sponsor. |
| Subjects | Theatrical productions--California--1930-1940. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Work Projects Administration Poster Collection |
| Original scan | 2,696 × 4,096 px · prints to 9 × 14 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | 814_Federal_Roadshow_attrac_1936 |
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