The WPA & the Golden Age · Reading & the Stage
W.P.A. Federal Theatre Project's Living Newspaper, sponsored by Newspaper Guild of N.Y., presents "Injunction granted"
Harry Herzog · WPA Federal Theatre Project, Living Newspaper unit, sponsored by the Newspaper Guild of N.Y., 1936
What it is
A color silkscreen theater poster designed by Harry Herzog in 1936 for the WPA Federal Theatre Project's Living Newspaper unit, advertising the production "Injunction Granted."
Why it matters
The Living Newspaper staged documentary theater pulled straight from the day's headlines, and "Injunction Granted" turned that method on labor and the courts, sponsored by the Newspaper Guild of New York. It belongs to the mid-1930s Federal Theatre Project, a New Deal experiment that put out-of-work theater people to work making topical drama for a broad public. The single image of a policeman brandishing a court order carries the show's argument before a word of copy is read.
What to notice
The officer and his upheld court order are printed in flat silkscreen color with no shading to soften the confrontation.
The law, raised overhead like a weapon.
Provenance
- School
- WPA — Federal Art Project (United States)
- Designer
- Harry Herzog
- Format
- Theater poster
- Poster published
- WPA Federal Theatre Project, Living Newspaper unit, sponsored by the Newspaper Guild of N.Y., 1936
- Source
- Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division · LCCN 98516142
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
