WPA : WORKS PROGRESS ADMINISTRATION PRINTS FOR CHANGE

WPA :WORKSPROGRESSADMINISTRATION

PRINTS FOR CHANGE

Visibility zero unless you lend your binoculars to the navy : 6 x 30 or 7 x 50 Zeiss or Bausch and Lomb : Pack carefully and send to Navy Observatory, Washington, D.C.

CREATED/PUBLISHEDN.Y. State : WPA, [between 1941 and 1943]

SUMMARYPoster asking citizens to lend their binoculars to the Navy, showing a ship hit by a torpedo.

Please keep the park clean.

Clough, Stanley Thomas, 1905- artist.

CREATED/PUBLISHEDOhio : Federal Art Project, W.P.A., 1938.

SUMMARYPoster encouraging conservation of a natural resource area, showing a boy holding a butterfly net, sitting against a tree.

NOTESDate stamped on verso: Oct 18 1938.

Don't kill our wild life.

CREATED/PUBLISHEDNYC : Works Progress Administration, Federal Art Project, [between 1936 and 1940]

SUMMARYPoster showing two deer crossing road in front of approaching car.

NOTESDate stamped on verso: Jul 18 1940.

Visit the aquarium.CREATED/PUBLISHEDPennsylvania : WPA Federal Art Project, [1936 or 1937]

SUMMARYPoster promoting aquariums as places to visit, showing jellyfish.

NOTESPoster designed by Hugh Stevenson, Philadelphia.Date stamped on verso: Aug 4 1937.

Visit the aquarium in Fairmount Park.

Muchley, Robert, artist.CREATED/PUBLISHEDPennsylvania : WPA Federal Art Project, [1936 or 1937]

Eliminate crime in the slums through housing.CREATED/PUBLISHED[New York : Federal Art Project, 1936]

SUMMARYPoster promoting planned housing as a method to deter crime in the slums, showing stylized man holding a gun against a backdrop of tenement buildings.

NOTESDate stamped on verso: Sep 12 1936.Work Projects Administration Poster Collection (Library of Congress).New York City Housing Authority - Fiorello H. La Guardia, Mayor - Langdon W. Post, Commissoner.

Don't mix 'em.

Lachenmann, Robert, artist.CREATED/PUBLISHEDPennsylvania : WPA Federal Art Project, [1936 or 1937]

SUMMARYPoster showing whiskey bottle, gas pump, and a skull.

NOTESDate stamped on verso: Mar 27 1937.

An orderly line is a safe line! / BEN [monogram].

CREATED/PUBLISHED[New York] : N.Y.C. WPA War Services, [between 1941 and 1943]

SUMMARYPoster promoting safety procedures during civil defense air raid drills.

NOTESPoster design attributed to B.E.N.Work Projects Administration Poster Collection (Library of Congress).

Your wartime duty! Don't waste water : Do not let water run a long time to get a drink : Do keep water in icebox instead / Kerkam.Kerkam, Earl, artist. CREATED/PUBLISHED [New York] : NYC WPA War Services, [between 1941 and 1943]SUMMARYPoster for The New York City Department of Water Supply, Gas & Electricity for a campaign to conserve water, showing a man drinking waternking water.

Don't be a drip! : Be patriotic ... Stop leaks ... Save water.Angus, Charlotte, artist.CREATED/PUBLISHED[Pennsylvania] : Penna Art WPA, [between 1941 and 1943]SUMMARYPoster encouraging people to conserve water.NOTESDate stamped on recto: Jan 21 '43.

Service on the home front : There's a job for every Pennsylvanian in these civilian defense efforts.

Hirshman, Louis, artist.

CREATED/PUBLISHED[Pennsylvania : WPA War Services Project, between 1941 and 1943]

SUMMARYPoster encouraging participation in civil defense efforts, showing family prepared for work.

NOTESDate stamped on recto: Jan 21 '43.

John is not really dull - he may only need his eyes examined.

CREATED/PUBLISHED[New York] : W.P.A. Fed. Art Project, [1936 or 1937]

SUMMARYPoster recommending eye examinations for children having difficulty learning, showing a woman holding an eye chart(?) in front of a boy reading a book.

NOTESDate stamped on verso: Dec 1 1937.Sponsored by Town of Hempstead, W.H. Runcie, M.D., Health Officer.

Keep your teeth clean.

CREATED/PUBLISHED[Rochester, NY] : Federal Art Project, [between 1936 and 1938]

SUMMARYPoster promoting good oral hygiene, showing stylized face, toothbrush and toothpaste.

NOTESDate stamped on verso: Sep 2 19[38].Work Projects Administration Poster Collection (Library of Congress).

As old as creation : Syphilis is now curable :Consult your physician / JD.

CREATED/PUBLISHED[New York] : WPA Federal Art Project, [1936 or 1937]

SUMMARYPoster promoting treatment for syphilis, showing dinosaurs.

NOTESTown of Hempstead, W.H. Runcie M.D. Health Officer.Date stamped on verso: Dec 1 1937.

Syphilis : False shame and fear may destroy your future : Have your blood tested.

Krause, Erik Hans, b. 1899, artist.

CREATED/PUBLISHED[Rochester, N.Y.] : WPA Federal Art Project, [between 1936 and 1938]

SUMMARYPoster for treatment of syphilis, showing a man and a woman bowing their heads in shame.

NOTESDate stamped on verso: Nov 8 1938.

Pennsylvania.Milhous, Katherine, 1894- artist.CREATED/PUBLISHEDPennsylvania : Federal Art Project, WPA, [between 1936 and 1941]SUMMARYPoster promoting Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, showing an Amish family.

The fly is as deadly as a bomber!!.

Muchley, Robert, artist.

CREATED/PUBLISHEDPhiladelphia, Pa. : War Services Project, [between 1941 and 1943]

SUMMARYPoster for Philadelphia Department of Health warning of potential health risks from exposure to flies.

Elisa Poletta

Love is the Cure

GRAPHIC DESIGNERS creating images that focus on the topic of positive change

Babak Safari

Peace

Arien CostaDepaula

No Hate. Yes Love.

Smile Banh

Culture is more than a Sterotype

Michael Jenner

We Are It’s All Connected

Justin Soest

Why

Jay Young-Moriya

Weapons Not Food

Chesca Tria

Cyber Security

Asher Jay

Wild Chorus Line

Asher Jay

Dolphin Drip Disaster

Marc Clanchy

Homeless

Samantha Leo

Homeless Birds

Hamed Sohrabi

Move Toward Peace

Morteza Farahnak

Violence

RESOURCESBOOKS:Posters for the People: Art of the WPA, Enis Carter (Editor), Christopher Denoon (Foreword by)

Posters of the WPA Christopher Denoon (Author) Paper Politics: Socially Engaged Printmaking Today, Josh MacPhee What is a Print?Sarah Suzuki

REVOLUTION ON PAPER MEXICAN PRINTS 1910-1960By Dawn Ades, Alison McClean Propaganda Prints: A History of Art in the Service of Social and Political Changeby Colin Moore Printmaking: In a Transforming South Africa Impressions from South Africa, 1965 to Now: Prints from The Museum of Modern ArtBy Judith B. Hecker

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