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October's "bright blue weather" (LOC)

Bender, Albert M.,, artist.

 

October's "bright blue weather" A good time to read!.

 

Chicago : Illinois WPA Art Project, [between 1936 and 1940]

 

1 print on board (poster) : silkscreen, color.

 

Notes:

Poster for the WPA Statewide Library Project, showing a boy reading a book, surrounded by a bat, ghost, witch, and other images of Halloween.

Date stamped on verso: Aug 30 1940.

Work Projects Administration Poster Collection (Library of Congress).

Attributed to Albert M. Bender.

Posters of the WPA / Christopher DeNoon. Los Angeles: Wheatly Press, c1987, no. 161

 

Subjects:

Boys--Illinois--1930-1940.

Reading--Illinois--1930-1940.

Halloween--1930-1940.

 

Format: Posters--1930-1940.

Screen prints--Color--1930-1940.

 

Rights Info: No known restrictions on publication.

 

Repository: Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division, Washington, D.C. 20540 USA

 

Higher resolution image is available (Persistent URL): hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/cph.3b48754

 

Call Number: POS - WPA - ILL .B46, no. 5

 

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Uploaded on October 11, 2024
Taken sometime in 1936