The WPA & the Golden Age · See America / Cities & States
See America, Welcome to Montana
M. Weitzman · U.S. Travel Bureau, 1937
What it is
M.
Why it matters
Weitzman made this for the Works Progress Administration Federal Art Project; the Library of Congress dates it to a range, between 1936 and 1938, hence the circa 1937 in the filename. The composition is a mountain scene with a horse and rider, the peaks blocked in as silhouettes so the eye reads distance from color alone. It was issued through the U.S. Travel Bureau.
What to notice
A lone rider against Montana mountains, the whole range carried on three or four flat colors.
Made by artists on the public payroll — art the country already owned.
Provenance
- School
- WPA — Federal Art Project (United States)
- Designer
- M. Weitzman
- Printer / house
- Works Progress Administration Federal Art Project
- Format
- Travel poster
- Poster published
- U.S. Travel Bureau, 1937
- Source
- United States Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division · cph.3g04241
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
