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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
Protect Her from Tuberculosis, 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 woman holding a flower: 'Protect her from tuberculosis. Consultation of your doctor or clinic means prevention.' Board, 55.9 by 35.6 cm, stamped Sep 2 1938.
Why it matters
No. 7 in the same Krause health series for New York.
What to notice
The flower carries the tenderness; the words carry the medicine.
Prevention, drawn as care.
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. 7 (B size) [P&P]; LCCN 98516181; ppmsca 38341
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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