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The WPA & the Golden Age · See America / Cities & States
Visit the Zoo (Two Penguins)
Works Progress Administration, 1936
What it is
A WPA colour woodcut poster from 1936, carrying a date stamp of 4 August 1937 on its verso.
Why it matters
The design reduces two penguins to blocky fields of flat colour, the kind of shape-first drawing the relief-block process rewards. It belongs to the Works Progress Administration's campaign to push free and cheap public recreation during the Depression.
What to notice
Two penguins, cut in wood and printed flat, invite the whole Depression-era city to the zoo.
Made by artists on the public payroll — art the country already owned.
Provenance
- School
- WPA — Federal Art Project (United States)
- Format
- Travel poster
- Poster published
- Works Progress Administration, 1936
- Source
- Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division · LCCN 98518441
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
