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Ephrata (Woman as an Angel)
Katherine Milhous · Work Projects Administration, 1939
What it is
A WPA colour lithograph promoting the Ephrata Cloister in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania.
Why it matters
Katherine Milhous, whose Pennsylvania Dutch imagery later carried into her children's books, signed the sheet in pencil.
What to notice
Katherine Milhous turns a Pennsylvania German cloister into a single winged figure in flat lithographic colour.
Made by artists on the public payroll — art the country already owned.
Provenance
- School
- WPA — Federal Art Project (United States)
- Designer
- Katherine Milhous
- Format
- One-sheet
- Poster published
- Work Projects Administration, 1939
- Source
- Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division · LCCN 98518466
Rights: CLEAR. Public domain — U.S. government program work (WPA Federal Art Project), any year. Gated by the poster’s own publication year. Cleared by registry on 2026-07-18.
Format
The full-resolution, color-managed file — restored honestly, yours to print and keep.
Sized to protect print quality — this scan supports sizes up to 18x24" cleanly.
Size
$29.00
