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Ranger Naturalist Service, Yellowstone — WPA Federal Art Project, c.1938A silkscreened invitation to the people’s park.The American Wing · WPA — Federal Art ProjectGrand Canyon National Park — WPA Federal Art ProjectThe canyon rendered in a handful of flat screens.The American Wing · WPA — Federal Art ProjectFort Marion National Monument, St. Augustine — WPA Federal Art ProjectThe oldest masonry fort in the country, sold in six flat colors.The American Wing · WPA — Federal Art ProjectLassen Volcanic National Park, Ranger Naturalist Service — WPA Federal Art ProjectAn active volcano, kept as calm as the rest of the series.The American Wing · WPA — Federal Art ProjectZion National Park, Ranger Naturalist Service — WPA Federal Art ProjectThe canyon walls, closing the series.The American Wing · WPA — Federal Art ProjectWork With Care — WPA Public Health PosterA workplace-safety poster, sold with the same confidence as a museum print.The American Wing · WPA — Federal Art ProjectHelp Your Neighborhood — WPA Public Health PosterA municipal-sanitation poster in the same hand as the parks series.The American Wing · WPA — Federal Art ProjectVoodoo Macbeth — Federal Theatre Project, 1936The FTP’s own silkscreened playbill for Orson Welles’s all-Black Harlem Macbeth.The American Wing · WPA — Federal Art ProjectLa Loïe Fuller at the Folies-Bergère — Jules Chéret, 1897The dancer as pure flame.The French Wing · Belle Époque — the AfficheMoulin Rouge — La GoulueThe poster that made lithography an avant-garde weapon.The French Wing · Belle Époque — the AfficheTournée du Chat NoirThe black cat that became a whole neighborhood’s brand.The French Wing · Belle Époque — the AfficheGismonda — Alphonse Mucha, 1894The poster that invented "Le Style Mucha" overnight.The French Wing · Belle Époque — the AfficheJOB Cigarette Papers — Alphonse Mucha, 1896The smoker as a Byzantine saint, hair turned to smoke.The French Wing · Belle Époque — the AfficheLes Maîtres de l’Affiche — Palais de Glace (Chéret)One plate from the 256-plate founding anthology.The French Wing · Belle Époque — the AfficheLes Maîtres de l’Affiche — Librairie Romantique (Grasset)Grasset’s medievalist line, plated for the anthology.The French Wing · Belle Époque — the AfficheLait Pur Stérilisé — Steinlen, 1894A milk advertisement, and a whole family of cats.The French Wing · Belle Époque — the AfficheGazette du Bon Ton — "Le Belvédère" (Barbier)Couture, stencilled by hand.The French Wing · Belle Époque — the AfficheGazette du Bon Ton — "L’Embarras du Choix" (Lepape)Modern silhouette, pre-war Paris.The French Wing · Belle Époque — the AfficheChocolat Klaus — Leonetto Cappiello, 1903A green horse and rider, selling chocolate like a circus act.The French Wing · Belle Époque — the AfficheFrance-Champagne — Pierre Bonnard, 1891The poster that made Toulouse-Lautrec want to make posters.The French Wing · Belle Époque — the AfficheExposition Eugène Grasset au Salon des Cent, 1894The designer, announcing his own show.The French Wing · Belle Époque — the AfficheTokyo Underground Railway — Opening, 1927Sugiura Hisui announces the first subway in the East.The Japanese Wing · Government Railways & Liner PostersCormorant Fishing at the Nagara River, Gifu — Sugiura Hisui, 1929A summer evening on the river, sold to city tourists.The Japanese Wing · Government Railways & Liner PostersThe Shōnan Railroad Starts Its Service — Sugiura Hisui, 1930A new coastal line, announced with the same clean hand.The Japanese Wing · Government Railways & Liner PostersBeat the Whites with the Red Wedge — El Lissitzky, 1919–20A red triangle drives into a white circle. The whole civil war in one diagram.The Soviet Wing · Soviet ConstructivismHave You Volunteered? — Dmitry Moor, 1920A Red Army soldier points straight out of the frame and asks.The Soviet Wing · Soviet ConstructivismInterior (Wnętrze) — Stanisław Wyspiański, 1899A theater poster from the founder of Young Poland’s stage design.The Polish Wing · Young Poland (Młoda Polska)Sztuka Society Exhibition Poster — Teodor Axentowicz, 1898The announcement for Kraków’s new art society.The Polish Wing · Young Poland (Młoda Polska)General Exhibition of Polish Art in Lemberg — Józef Mehoffer, 1910A second founding hand of Young Poland, announcing a national showcase.The Polish Wing · Young Poland (Młoda Polska)Nile Steamer Service — Thomas Cook & Son, c.1902The steamer that took Europe up the Nile.The Egyptian Wing · Egypt in the Age of TravelFirst Vienna Secession Exhibition Poster — Gustav Klimt, 1898Theseus and the Minotaur, once censored, now the movement’s founding image.The Shallow Shelf · Vienna SecessionVienna Secession Exhibition Poster (XIII) — Koloman Moser, 1902The Secession’s other founding hand.The Shallow Shelf · Vienna SecessionFifth Vienna Secession Exhibition Poster — Koloman Moser, 1899Moser’s earlier turn at the Secession’s own advertising.The Shallow Shelf · Vienna SecessionTosca — Adolfo Hohenstein, 1899The opera poster that sold Puccini to the street.The Shallow Shelf · The Ricordi HouseMadama Butterfly — Leopoldo Metlicovitz, 1904Cio-Cio-San, announced for her opera’s premiere season.The Shallow Shelf · The Ricordi HouseLa Wally — Adolfo Hohenstein, c.1895A second Hohenstein opera poster, from earlier in the Ricordi run.The Shallow Shelf · The Ricordi HouseTurandot — Leopoldo Metlicovitz, 1926Puccini’s last opera, announced by the house that announced his first.The Shallow Shelf · The Ricordi HouseThe Boat Race — London Underground Poster, 1920The Tube, sold as modern art you could ride.The Shallow Shelf · Underground & Railway PostersMunich and Central Europe — LNER Poster, Ludwig Hohlwein, 1929A German poster artist’s hand, hired by a British railway.The Shallow Shelf · Underground & Railway PostersThe Cornish Riviera — GWR Poster, Louis Burleigh Bruhl, 1928The domestic seaside route, sold with the same confidence as the continental one.The Shallow Shelf · Underground & Railway PostersBauhaus Exhibition Poster — Joost Schmidt, 1923The eye, the hand, and geometry, announcing the school itself.The Shallow Shelf · The BauhausBauhaus Exhibition Postcard — László Moholy-Nagy, 1923Type alone, arranged as architecture.The Shallow Shelf · The BauhausBauhaus Exhibition Postcard — Farkas Molnár, 1923A second designer’s hand, same exhibition, same postcard run.The Shallow Shelf · The BauhausLa Calavera Catrina — José Guadalupe PosadaThe skeleton in a fine lady’s hat that outlived every regime it satirized.The Shallow Shelf · Posada — Broadsides & CalaverasCalavera Oaxaqueña — José Guadalupe Posada, 1903A second skeleton, satirizing a different vanity.The Shallow Shelf · Posada — Broadsides & CalaverasGran Calavera Eléctrica — José Guadalupe Posada, c.1905A whole crowd of skeletons, wired for the modern age.The Shallow Shelf · Posada — Broadsides & CalaverasSee AmericaTwo riders cross a shallow desert stream, silkscreened flat and bold for the WPA's See America.The American Wing · WPA — Federal Art ProjectSee AmericaAn encampment beside still water, screened in a few flat colors for the Travel Bureau's See America pitch.The American Wing · WPA — Federal Art ProjectSee AmericaA waterfall cut into flat silkscreen bands, selling the national parks to Depression-era travelers.The American Wing · WPA — Federal Art ProjectMystery veils the desert - National parksA 1934 Park Service lithograph that sells the desert on atmosphere, not a single landmark.The American Wing · WPA — Federal Art ProjectSave our wild lifeDorothy Waugh's 1935 conservation plea, drawn in the flat poster colour of the New Deal park campaign.The American Wing · WPA — Federal Art ProjectThe lure of the national parksDorothy Waugh, 1934: the national parks sold not as scenery but as a pull you cannot refuse.The American Wing · WPA — Federal Art ProjectThe national parks preserve wild lifeTwo bighorn sheep hold the frame in J. Hirt's WPA silkscreen for the national parks.The American Wing · WPA — Federal Art ProjectEnjoy - don't destroyTwo children picking flowers, and a three-word scolding that has aged remarkably well.The American Wing · WPA — Federal Art ProjectProtect your parksA 1938 WPA silkscreen pulled on board in Ohio: trees, two words, and no argument.The American Wing · WPA — Federal Art ProjectPlease keep the park cleanA boy with a butterfly net leans against a tree, and the whole park asks one quiet favor.The American Wing · WPA — Federal Art ProjectUp where winter calls to playJ. Rivolta's silkscreen turns a winter slope into an invitation you can read from across the room.The American Wing · WPA — Federal Art ProjectOlympic bobsled run, Lake PlacidThe Lake Placid bobsled run in flat screened color and pure downhill nerve.The American Wing · WPA — Federal Art ProjectDiscover Puerto Rico U.S.A.Frank S. Nicholson sells an island already inside the borders: Discover Puerto Rico, U.S.A.The American Wing · WPA — Federal Art ProjectRural PennsylvaniaKatherine Milhous, signed in pencil, gives Pennsylvania's plain-dress children the soft grain of a lithograph stone.The American Wing · WPA — Federal Art ProjectHaiti, a drama of the black Napoleon, by William Du Bois, Lafayette TheatreVera Bock's stylized black Napoleon stares out of a 1938 Lafayette Theatre playbill — silkscreen at its most imperious.The American Wing · WPA — Federal Art ProjectThe WPA Federal Dance Theatre presents "The eternal prodigal"A Federal Dance Theatre bill for "The Eternal Prodigal," squeegeed in flat silkscreen colour on board.The American Wing · WPA — Federal Art ProjectFederal Theatre Marionettes present "A Christmas carol"A horn-blowing herald in period dress strides down the street to cry the Federal Theatre Marionettes' "A Christmas Carol."The American Wing · WPA — Federal Art Project"The chocolate soldier"A woman and a soldier, silkscreened to sell a Federal Music Project staging of "The Chocolate Soldier" in Pasadena.The American Wing · WPA — Federal Art ProjectW.P.A. Federal Theatre Project's Living Newspaper, sponsored by Newspaper Guild of N.Y., presents "Injunction granted"A cop hoists a court order aloft in Harry Herzog's 1936 silkscreen for the Living Newspaper's "Injunction Granted."The American Wing · WPA — Federal Art ProjectW.P.A. Federal Theatre Negro Unit in "Noah" a human comedyNoah rides an animal-packed ark, silkscreened to bill the Federal Theatre's Negro Unit at Harlem's Lafayette.The American Wing · WPA — Federal Art ProjectFederal Music Project presents the comic opera "Die fledermaus" - "The bat" by Johann StraussA single spread-winged bat carries the whole poster for the Federal Music Project's "Die Fledermaus."The American Wing · WPA — Federal Art ProjectW.P.A. concerts of unusual musicA grand piano cut to a few flat silkscreen shapes, advertising free WPA concerts of music nobody else was playing.The American Wing · WPA — Federal Art Project"Carmen"A matador in flat silkscreen color, standing in for the whole of Bizet's Seville.The American Wing · WPA — Federal Art ProjectW.P.A. Federal Theatre presents "Native ground" by Virgil GeddesA plow abandoned in the field, the farmhouse shrunk to the horizon - a whole Dust Bowl decade in one silkscreened bill.The American Wing · WPA — Federal Art ProjectSymphony concertsA silkscreened notice for Federal Music Project symphony nights at the Theatre of Music, 254 West 54th Street.The American Wing · WPA — Federal Art ProjectWPA in Ohio Federal Music Project presents Verdi's grand opera "Il trovatore"Verdi's grand opera, staged in Ohio on federal relief money and advertised in hand-pulled silkscreen.The American Wing · WPA — Federal Art ProjectBe kind to books clubChildren hoist a sign for the Be Kind to Books Club - WPA reading gospel at its most disarming.The American Wing · WPA — Federal Art ProjectDon't gum up a bookA boy tramps across an open book on gum-sticky hands and feet — WPA library manners at their bluntest.The American Wing · WPA — Federal Art ProjectRain is bad for a book!A boy raises his umbrella and sits on the open book, letting the weather do its worst.The American Wing · WPA — Federal Art ProjectOctober's "bright blue weather"A boy reads while a bat, a ghost, and a witch crowd in from the margins of October.The American Wing · WPA — Federal Art ProjectExhibition — oils & watercolors, Federal Art GalleryA palette and brushes announce oils and watercolors at the Federal Art Gallery — horizontal, silkscreened, unsigned.The American Wing · WPA — Federal Art ProjectExhibition (Federal Art Project, Greek figure holding print)A Greek head in profile lifts a print to the light — Milhous selling art with art, cut in wood.The American Wing · WPA — Federal Art ProjectEast side, West side exhibition of photographsA photographer lines up his shot with the New York skyline stacked at his back.The American Wing · WPA — Federal Art ProjectYoung and old visit the library on the parkwayA family sets out for the library on the parkway, printed in 1936 as a WPA colour lithograph.The American Wing · WPA — Federal Art ProjectJust One Long Step to Sea Cliff, L.I.One long stride from the fairgrounds to the Long Island shore, sold in poster-flat colour.The American Wing · WPA — Federal Art ProjectVisit Brookside Zoo freeA leopard prowls the width of a rare landscape-format WPA zoo poster - admission, it insists, is free.The American Wing · WPA — Federal Art ProjectVisit the Brookfield Zoo free Thursday, Saturday, SundayA polar bear anchors three free days a week, the schedule set in type beneath him.The American Wing · WPA — Federal Art ProjectInformation - Brookfield ZooHippos laid over the silhouette of Africa - a zoo's wayfinding turned into pure graphic shorthand.The American Wing · WPA — Federal Art ProjectVisit the zoo - PhiladelphiaA hippopotamus cut in woodblock, its bulk carried by a few carved planes, gouge marks left in the ink.The American Wing · WPA — Federal Art ProjectVisit the zoo (three penguins)Three penguins in carved black and white, a whole poster built from two colors and a stance.The American Wing · WPA — Federal Art ProjectMaîtres de l'Affiche, Vol. 2, Plate 74 — Carlos SchwabeSymbolist reverie on a commercial press: Carlos Schwabe's plate 74, dated 1895.The French Wing · Belle Époque — the AffichePl 34 - SteinlenSteinlen's Montmartre crayon, pulled at plate scale for the Chaix Maîtres de l'Affiche series.The French Wing · Belle Époque — the AffichePl 20 - Edward PenfieldAmerica's first great poster man, admitted to the Paris canon at plate 20.The French Wing · Belle Époque — the AfficheLes Maîtres de l'Affiche, Vol. 1, Plate 2 - Toulouse-Lautrec (Divan Japonais)Lautrec's Divan Japonais, shrunk to collector scale as plate 2 of the first Maîtres de l'Affiche volume.The French Wing · Belle Époque — the AffichePl 16 - BeggarstaffThe Beggarstaffs' cut-paper flatness — the poster style that taught modern advertising to drop the detail.The French Wing · Belle Époque — the AffichePl 10 - De FeureGeorges de Feure's Symbolist line, shrunk to portfolio scale by the Chaix presses in 1895.The French Wing · Belle Époque — the AfficheMaîtres de l'Affiche, Vol. 2, Plate 52 — Will BradleyThe lone American in the French portfolio: Will Bradley's flat inks and whiplash line, plate 52.The French Wing · Belle Époque — the AffichePl 04 - Dudley HardyAn English poster hand pulled through a French press: Dudley Hardy's plate for volume one of Les Maîtres de l'Affiche.The French Wing · Belle Époque — the AffichePl 94 - Alfons MuchaMucha's Salon des Cent design, shrunk to a Chaix pocket lithograph and scanned so clean the line still sings.The French Wing · Belle Époque — the AfficheMaîtres de l'Affiche, Vol. 2, Plate 82 — Henri de Toulouse-LautrecToulouse-Lautrec for La Revue Blanche — spattered crachis over flat colour, Maîtres de l'Affiche plate 82.The French Wing · Belle Époque — the AffichePl 172 - BradleyWill Bradley's flat color and hard black line — America's answer to Paris, issued as plate 172.The French Wing · Belle Époque — the AfficheMaîtres de l'Affiche, Vol. 2, Plate 63 — BeggarstaffsCut-paper silhouettes on blank ground — the Beggarstaffs stripped the poster to its bones.The French Wing · Belle Époque — the AfficheDu soleil dans un verre... Cognac MonnetCappiello pours the sun itself into a brandy glass -- a 1927 lithograph in molten orange.The French Wing · Belle Époque — the AfficheAmbassadeurs — Yvette Guilbert, Tous les soirsYvette Guilbert on the Ambassadeurs bill, drawn tall and narrow to fit a Paris column.The French Wing · Belle Époque — the AfficheAffiches Charles Verneau — "La Rue"Steinlen's 1896 street parade for the printer Verneau — a whole Paris pavement stretched life-size across a wall.The French Wing · Belle Époque — the AfficheAperitivo digestivo Fernet-BrancaCappiello's 1911 Fernet-Branca poster, printed in Paris by Vercasson, still selling bitterness as spectacle.The French Wing · Belle Époque — the AfficheLe Petit Sou, journal de défense socialeA newspaper poster from the artist who spent his career drawing the people it claimed to defend.The French Wing · Belle Époque — the AfficheAristide Bruant dans son cabaret (de profil)Black cape, red scarf, broad hat in profile — the silhouette that turned a singer into a logo.The French Wing · Belle Époque — the AffichePlakat zur XII. Ausstellung der Vereinigung Bildender Künstler Österreichs. Secession. November–Dezember '01Alfred Roller's towering 95 x 31.5 cm placard for the Vienna Secession's 1901 exhibition, lithographed in Wien.The Shallow Shelf · Vienna SecessionPlakat für die XIV. Ausstellung der Secession (Beethoven exhibition)Alfred Roller's 1902 lithograph for the Vienna Secession's fourteenth show — the legendary Beethoven exhibition.The Shallow Shelf · Vienna SecessionPlakatentwurf für die „Erste grosse Kunstausstellung" der SecessionMoser's hand-painted design for the Secession's first exhibition poster — gouache and metal, not yet ink.The Shallow Shelf · Vienna SecessionPlakat für die Möbelfirma „Jacob & Josef Kohn" (Russisches Plakat)A barefoot woman in colour lithograph, drawn by Koloman Moser to sell Viennese bentwood to Russia.The Shallow Shelf · Vienna SecessionTänzerin Miss Olga GeorgeThe dancer Olga George, drawn by Koloman Moser and printed in colour for the 1911 Wiener Werkstätte almanac.The Shallow Shelf · Vienna SecessionGiov(a)nni Gilardini, Napoli... Ombrelli, bastoni, ventagli, ecc. ecc.Umbrellas, walking sticks and fans, sold to Naples in 1900 with the full lithographic firepower of Ricordi's Milan presses.The Shallow Shelf · The Ricordi HousePitiecor, salute e delizia dei bambiniPitiecor, salute e delizia dei bambini - Metlicovitz's 1900 tonic ad, a lithograph nearly three times taller than it is wide.The Shallow Shelf · The Ricordi HouseFalstaff. Comédie lyrique en 3 actes par A. Boito, musique de G. VerdiHohenstein's Falstaff, re-set in French for the opera's 1894 Paris opening.The Shallow Shelf · The Ricordi HouseFalstaff. Commedia lirica in 3 atti di A. Boito, musica de G. VerdiHohenstein's Italian bill for Verdi's last opera, printed by Ricordi at a scale meant to stop traffic.The Shallow Shelf · The Ricordi HousePoster, The North Downs, London UndergroundKauffer flattens the North Downs into blocks of green and brown - modernism arriving on a London wall in 1915.The Shallow Shelf · Underground & Railway PostersPoster, Winter Sales, for London UndergroundWind-blown shoppers flattened to blue, black and orange: Winter Sales are best reached by the Underground.The Shallow Shelf · Underground & Railway PostersPoster, Godstone, London UndergroundA Surrey quarry and its working men, cut into flat planes of colour for the 1915 Underground.The Shallow Shelf · Underground & Railway PostersPoster, Oxhey Woods, London UndergroundRolling hills flattened into simplified bands of colour, lettered OXHEY WOODS - Kauffer's Underground debut, 1915.The Shallow Shelf · Underground & Railway PostersMinami Manshū Tetsudō Kabushiki Kaisha - South Manchuria Railway (Two boys)Two small boys march shoulder to shoulder beneath a railway emblem — a 1927 poster with a great deal on its mind.The Japanese Wing · Government Railways & Liner PostersSkeletons hawking their wares and shouting about teetotalers, drunkards, old men and kids, tomcats and working girlsSkeleton vendors bawl their pitch at teetotalers, drunkards, tomcats and working girls alike.The Shallow Shelf · Posada — Broadsides & CalaverasSkeletons of the good defendersSkeletons dance across cheap orange paper — Posada's calavera broadside, printed to be bought, read, and thrown away.The Shallow Shelf · Posada — Broadsides & CalaverasCupid's Skeleton (La Calavera de Cupido)Love as a grinning skeleton — Posada arms a calavera Cupid and lets the bone show through.The Shallow Shelf · Posada — Broadsides & CalaverasThe only safe weapons against cancer are surgery, x-rays (and) radiumA blunt 1938 public-health verdict in silkscreen: surgery, x-rays, radium — and nothing else.The American Wing · WPA — Federal Art ProjectHandle with careA traffic signal and a steering wheel under three words lifted straight off a shipping crate.The American Wing · WPA — Federal Art ProjectPlanned housing fights diseaseMagnified microbes crowd the frame while planned housing is offered as the cure.The American Wing · WPA — Federal Art ProjectUnfair to babiesAn infant walks a picket line - the labor placard turned into a child-care plea.The American Wing · WPA — Federal Art ProjectGive to the needyA milk bottle blown up to monument size, selling a vaudeville night to feed the hungry.The American Wing · WPA — Federal Art ProjectDiphtheria strikes unprotected childrenA lightning bolt aimed at a child, stopped cold by a flying disc marked TOXOID.The American Wing · WPA — Federal Art ProjectIs your child vaccinated?One enormous red question mark, and a question no parent could walk past.The American Wing · WPA — Federal Art ProjectMilk - for warmthBundled against the cold, a woman raises a glass of milk like a small furnace.The American Wing · WPA — Federal Art ProjectGonorrhea causes blindness - arthritis, invalidism and miseryA silkscreened knight plants his boot on a coiling serpent, and the disease gets a dragon's face.The American Wing · WPA — Federal Art ProjectThe great crippler - syphilisThree blunt words in a WPA silkscreen that name the disease before you can look away.The American Wing · WPA — Federal Art ProjectI Want You for U.S. Army - Nearest Recruiting StationUncle Sam's finger, aimed straight out of the sheet - the most reproduced recruiting image America ever printed.The American Wing · The American Golden Age — the Poster before 1931I Want You for the NavyChristy's standing 'Navy girl' recasts the recruiting summons as glamour rather than command.The American Wing · The American Golden Age — the Poster before 1931Gee!! I Wish I Were a Man, I'd Join the NavyA woman in Navy blues delivers the dare that made the poster famous: be a man and do it.The American Wing · The American Golden Age — the Poster before 1931That liberty shall not perish from the earth — Buy liberty bonds, Fourth Liberty LoanNew York harbor in flames and the Statue of Liberty beheaded — the most alarming image American war finance ever printed.The American Wing · The American Golden Age — the Poster before 1931Destroy this mad brute — Enlist, U.S. ArmyA gorilla in a spiked helmet wades ashore with a bloody club marked 'kultur' — American propaganda at its most unhinged.The American Wing · The American Golden Age — the Poster before 1931For Every Fighter a Woman Worker — Care for Her through the YWCAA woman in blue overalls, dated 1918 — the war-work poster that put the female industrial worker on the wall as an equal.The American Wing · The American Golden Age — the Poster before 1931The Barnum & Bailey Greatest Show on Earth - Chaste, Charming, Weird & Wonderful Supernatural Illusions Created by Roltair, the MagicianA Strobridge chromolithograph selling Roltair's stage phantoms as the circus's most respectable thrill.The American Wing · The American Golden Age — the Poster before 1931Harper's, MayPenfield's monthly Harper's placard - flat color, hard outline, and a reader who never looks up.The American Wing · The American Golden Age — the Poster before 1931Panama-Pacific International Exhibition, San Francisco - Southern Pacific RailwayA railroad's panoramic sales pitch for the 1915 exposition: 'the greatest, the most beautiful and the most important in history.'The American Wing · The American Golden Age — the Poster before 1931Richard Strauss-Woche, festival posterHohlwein's Strauss festival poster: one robed figure, one tall staff, and almost nothing else.The Shallow Shelf · Plakat — the Object PosterKaloderma Seife, Gelée, PuderSoap, gel and powder sold Hohlwein-style — a full-page advert torn from Jugend, July 1924.The Shallow Shelf · Plakat — the Object PosterZoologischer Garten MünchenHohlwein's Munich zoo poster: flat lithographic slabs of colour, no outline, no fuss.The Shallow Shelf · Plakat — the Object PosterOpelThe Sachplakat in one move: the car, the word Opel, and nothing else.The Shallow Shelf · Plakat — the Object PosterElegante WeltThirty-five Pfennig for the elegant world, lettered by Berlin's best poster printer.The Shallow Shelf · Plakat — the Object PosterBar RicheBerlin nightlife rendered in two or three colours and a lot of nerve.The Shallow Shelf · Plakat — the Object PosterMaxim BarErdt at twenty-four, advertising a bar with a poster that already knows what to leave out.The Shallow Shelf · Plakat — the Object PosterHier zeichnet man die KriegsanleiheBernhard strips the war bond appeal to its bones: flat colour, one command, a deadline you cannot miss.The Shallow Shelf · Plakat — the Object PosterWiener Werkstätte Mode Stoffe Kunstgewerbe Messausstellungen, Messepalast und Kärntnerstrasse 32A woman's hair becomes a grape vine - the Vienna Workshops advertising themselves in their own ornamental language.The Shallow Shelf · Plakat — the Object PosterEphrataA woman drawn as an angel stands in for the Ephrata Cloister, Pennsylvania's austere eighteenth-century commune.The American Wing · WPA — Federal Art ProjectPennsylvaniaAn Amish couple in flat lithographic color, selling Lancaster County to anyone with a train ticket.The American Wing · WPA — Federal Art ProjectPhiladelphia - Carpenters' HallCarpenters' Hall reduced to a handful of silkscreen flats — brick, sash, cupola, and not one wasted pass.The American Wing · WPA — Federal Art ProjectVisit historic Ephrata, PennsylvaniaTwo angels scatter flowers over the Ephrata Cloister — Milhous at her most fraktur.The American Wing · WPA — Federal Art ProjectPhiladelphiaOld Swedes' Church in silkscreen flats — Philadelphia's oldest standing church as a travel pitch.The American Wing · WPA — Federal Art ProjectPueblos of the SouthwestPueblo dwellings, a cactus and a clay pot, stacked into one flat Southwestern plane by Dorothy Waugh.The American Wing · WPA — Federal Art ProjectSee AmericaTwo tiny figures dwarfed by a cavern's throat, scale doing all the advertising work.The American Wing · WPA — Federal Art ProjectSee America, Welcome to MontanaA lone rider against Montana mountains, the whole range carried on three or four flat colors.The American Wing · WPA — Federal Art ProjectFederal Theatre (on) Treasure Island "Swing mikado"A woman dancer in mid-motion advertises the Federal Theatre's swing-band Mikado at the 1939 Treasure Island fair.The American Wing · WPA — Federal Art ProjectPunch & JudyTwo puppet busts, screened flat and loud, summon an audience to Punch & Judy at the Sioux City Art Center.The American Wing · WPA — Federal Art Project"The Mikado"A screened Japanese tea garden fronts a Federal Music Project Mikado at El Centro High School.The American Wing · WPA — Federal Art ProjectGala puppet circusOne clown's head, screened in flat circus colour, carries an entire Federal Theatre puppet show.The American Wing · WPA — Federal Art ProjectFederal WPA Variety Theatre presents vaudevilleA singer mid-note, flung across a silkscreened poster for a nine-act WPA vaudeville bill.The American Wing · WPA — Federal Art ProjectFederal Theatre Project presents 10 acts all star vaudevilleTen acts, a chorus line and an orchestra pressed onto one silkscreened sheet for a hall in Salem, Massachusetts.The American Wing · WPA — Federal Art ProjectIllinois symphony orchestraOne outsized musical note carries an entire symphony bill at the Great Northern Theatre.The American Wing · WPA — Federal Art ProjectHall Johnson's famous negro music-drama "Run, little chillun"Two singers, two dancers, and a silkscreened call to the Savoy Theatre in San Diego.The American Wing · WPA — Federal Art ProjectPresented by The Federal Dance Theatre "Young tramps"Two figures walking in the rain, cut in silkscreen for the Federal Dance Theatre's "Young Tramps."The American Wing · WPA — Federal Art ProjectSnow White and the seven dwarfsSnow White, a prince and all seven dwarfs crowded into one hand-screened WPA sheet.The American Wing · WPA — Federal Art ProjectA trip around the world at story hour timeTwo children perched on an open book look down over mountains and trees.The American Wing · WPA — Federal Art ProjectIn March read the books you've always meant to readA windblown woman braces against March, trailing Scott, Dumas, Dickens and Austen.The American Wing · WPA — Federal Art ProjectStory hourA girl at a woman's knees, an open book between them: story hour, in flat silkscreen colour.The American Wing · WPA — Federal Art ProjectFor greater knowledge on more subjects use your library more oftenA mortarboard and a pair of spectacles float over the globe - the WPA's pitch that a library card is a passport.The American Wing · WPA — Federal Art ProjectThis is an adult world, its problems are up to you!A globe and a draughtsman's compass, and a slogan that hands the reader the bill for the century.The American Wing · WPA — Federal Art ProjectWe are all ignorant on some subjects - what is yours?The flame of knowledge over an open book, framed in an oval, under a question aimed straight at the passer-by.The American Wing · WPA — Federal Art ProjectThe world wants new knowledge - new skillsThe earth itself as the client, and retraining as the terms of employment.The American Wing · WPA — Federal Art ProjectAnnouncing federal adult classesFederally sponsored classes, a street address on Ontario Street, and no ornament wasted on either.The American Wing · WPA — Federal Art ProjectFree classes for adults - register nowA full curriculum in one breath - social studies, home-making, business, music, Americanization, language, science, arts.The American Wing · WPA — Federal Art ProjectCommunity CenterA silkscreened inventory of civic life: instruments, tools and sports gear stacked as an invitation.The American Wing · WPA — Federal Art ProjectCurb service - Chicago Public LibraryA traffic light stands in for a bookmobile: curb service, 10,000 current books, free.The American Wing · WPA — Federal Art ProjectPoster for the Harlem Community Art CenterRothstein's 1938 Federal Art Project poster announcing the Harlem Community Art Center.The American Wing · WPA — Federal Art ProjectVisit the Zoo (Two Penguins)Two penguins, cut in wood and printed flat, invite the whole Depression-era city to the zoo.The American Wing · WPA — Federal Art ProjectEphrata (Woman as an Angel)Katherine Milhous turns a Pennsylvania German cloister into a single winged figure in flat lithographic colour.The American Wing · WPA — Federal Art ProjectMaîtres de l'Affiche, Vol. 2, Plate 88 — Privat-LivemontA woman, a breaking wave and Art Nouveau lettering — the rare landscape plate in the series.The French Wing · Belle Époque — the AffichePl 27 - Alfons MuchaMucha at the exact moment the Paris poster trade decided he mattered.The French Wing · Belle Époque — the AffichePl 95 - Théophile-Alexandre SteinlenSteinlen for the Chaix anthology — Montmartre's blunt draughtsman at collector's scale, 4381 x 6146.The French Wing · Belle Époque — the AffichePl 182 - Alfons MuchaMucha's Bieres de la Meuse woman, haloed and hair-swept, in the miniature Chaix reprint.The French Wing · Belle Époque — the AfficheMaîtres de l'Affiche, Vol. 1, Plate 46 — SteinlenSteinlen's cabaret poster, shrunk to a collector's plate and printed on Chaix's presses.The French Wing · Belle Époque — the AffichePl 175 - Paul BerthonBerthon's stringed-instrument reverie in tendril-tangled Art Nouveau, printed landscape-wide.The French Wing · Belle Époque — the AffichePl 110 - Toulouse-LautrecLautrec's Jane Avril, the dancer drawn as a single nervous line, at 4285 x 6001.The French Wing · Belle Époque — the AffichePl 114 - Alfons MuchaMucha's Lorenzaccio design, the tall narrow format that made the Sarah Bernhardt posters famous.The French Wing · Belle Époque — the AffichePl 99 - Ethel ReedEthel Reed's Miss Traumerei — the rare American woman admitted to the Paris poster canon.The French Wing · Belle Époque — the AffichePl 115 - Edward PenfieldThe American in the French canon: Penfield's flat-colour poster style, plate 115 of volume 3.The French Wing · Belle Époque — the AffichePl 214 - Manuel OraziOrazi's Theodora for the Porte-Saint-Martin: Byzantine gold-work turned into theatre advertising.The French Wing · Belle Époque — the AffichePl 232 - William NicolsonNicholson's blunt British silhouette work - a maize flour advert with the drawing cut to the bone.The French Wing · Belle Époque — the AfficheMaîtres de l'Affiche, Plate 238Toulouse-Lautrec reduced to pocket size for the collector's portfolio that made poster art respectable.The French Wing · Belle Époque — the AffichePl 227 - Paul BerthonBerthon again, plate 227, the chalk-soft end of Art Nouveau at full poster height.The French Wing · Belle Époque — the AfficheIndispensable aux fumeurs — Cachou LajaunieA 1906 lithograph pitching liquorice pastilles to smokers — 140 by 99 centimetres of pure Cappiello nerve.The French Wing · Belle Époque — the AfficheJane Avril — Jardin de ParisJane Avril mid-kick at the Jardin de Paris, framed by the neck of a double bass.The French Wing · Belle Époque — the AfficheCaudieuxLautrec's café-concert comic Caudieux barrels across the stage, all bulk and momentum, signed with the artist's monogram.The French Wing · Belle Époque — the AfficheChocolat mexicain Masson, 91 rue de Rivoli, ParisGrasset's 1892 chocolate poster, in the lettering variant that carries the 91 rue de Rivoli address.The French Wing · Belle Époque — the AfficheJeanne d'Arc — Sarah BernhardtGrasset armours Sarah Bernhardt as Joan of Arc — stained-glass outlines, banner and blade, in the model the actress herself approved.The French Wing · Belle Époque — the AfficheAbsinthe RobetteA translucent-robed figure lifts a glass of green absinthe inside a halo of curling Art Nouveau line.The French Wing · Belle Époque — the AfficheSavon Cristel, Gosselies — savon mou, garanti purSoft soap sold with Art Nouveau grandeur — Privat-Livemont turns a Gosselies detergent into a lithographic reverie.The French Wing · Belle Époque — the AfficheL'Escarmouche, journal illustré hebdomadaireIbels advertises a short-lived 1893 satirical weekly whose contributor list reads like a Nabis roll call.The French Wing · Belle Époque — the AfficheDivan Japonais, 75 rue des MartyrsA black-sheathed woman watches the cabaret stage while the singer above her is cropped clean off at the neck.The French Wing · Belle Époque — the AffichePlakat für „Frommes Kalender"An hourglass, a woman in period dress, and lettering Moser drew himself — Vienna, 1899.The Shallow Shelf · Vienna SecessionEdgar, dramma lirico in 3 atti di F. Fontana, musica di G. Puccini (affiche avant la lettre)Hohenstein's colour lithograph for Puccini's Edgar - the opera poster before the letterpress was ever laid over it.The Shallow Shelf · The Ricordi HouseG. Ricordi & C° music publishers, London. Lays for little OnesHohenstein turns his opera-poster brush on a book of children's songs for Ricordi's London house, signed and dated '98.The Shallow Shelf · The Ricordi HouseSkeletons (calaveras) dancing and drinking, corrida in bottom sectionCalaveras drink and dance above a printed ballad, with a coquettish waitress at the centre of the trouble.The Shallow Shelf · Posada — Broadsides & CalaverasLack of funds need not discourage from seeking competent medical careA Depression-era poster that says the quiet part out loud: being broke is not a reason to stay sick.The American Wing · WPA — Federal Art ProjectEat these every dayMilk, eggs, bread, meat and vegetables laid out flat and bright - the food pyramid before it was a pyramid.The American Wing · WPA — Federal Art ProjectCellar ceilings must be fire-retardedMartin Weitzman puts a couple inside a burning house and lets the building code do the rest.The American Wing · WPA — Federal Art ProjectKeep your teeth cleanA stylised face, a toothbrush, a tube of paste - WPA graphic design stripped to three shapes.The American Wing · WPA — Federal Art Project