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Prepared from the source scan: surroundings removed and the sheet levelled where required. The source record remains available below.
The WPA & the Golden Age · The Public Good
No Creature in This World So Ignorantly Nurtured as the Average Baby, by Erik Hans Krause
Erik Hans Krause · WPA Federal Art Project, New York, 1938
Format
Archival pigment giclée on museum-grade matte art paper, color-managed to the source scan — the flat inks and stone grain intact. The 40×60 is the room-changer.
Size
$39.00
What it is
A WPA silkscreen poster by Erik Hans Krause showing a girl with a fawn: 'No creature in this world so ignorantly nurtured as the average baby. Advice at your health bureau.' Board, 55.9 by 35.6 cm, stamped Dec 23 1938.
Why it matters
No. 8 in the Krause health series.
What to notice
The gentlest picture in the series carries its bluntest line.
A scolding, delivered softly.
Provenance
- School
- WPA — Federal Art Project (United States)
- Designer
- Erik Hans Krause
- Format
- Political poster
- Poster published
- WPA Federal Art Project, New York, 1938
- Source
- Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division · POS - WPA - NY .K737, no. 8 (B size) [P&P]; LCCN 98516183; ppmsca 38338
Rights: CLEAR. Public domain — U.S. government work (the WPA Federal Art Project, the wartime agencies), any year. Gated by the poster’s own publication year. Cleared by registry on 2026-11-01.
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