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American scenes : WPA-era prints from the 1930s and 1940s : featuring artwork from the collections of La Salle University Art Museum and the Free Library of Philadelphia

Title
  1. American scenes : WPA-era prints from the 1930s and 1940s : featuring artwork from the collections of La Salle University Art Museum and the Free Library of Philadelphia / edited by Klare Scarborough and Carmen Vendelin.
Published by
  1. Philadelphia, Pennsylvania : La Salle University Art Museum, ©2014.

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Additional authors
  1. Scarborough, Klare
  2. Vendelin, Carmen
  3. Reardon, Siobhan A.
  4. Moriuchi, Mey-Yen
  5. Blum, Thomas
  6. La Salle University. Art Museum, host institution.
  7. Free Library of Philadelphia. Print and Picture Collection, host institution.
Description
  1. xiv, 106 pages : illustrations (some color); 28 cm
Alternative title
  1. WPA-era prints from the 1930s and 1940s
Subject
  1. Federal Art Project > Exhibitions
  2. La Salle University. Art Museum > Exhibitions
  3. Free Library of Philadelphia. Print and Picture Collection > Exhibitions
  4. Federal Art Project
  5. La Salle University. Art Museum
  6. 1900-1999
  7. Prints, American > 20th century > Exhibitions
  8. Prints > Pennsylvania > Philadelphia > Exhibitions
  9. Estampe américaine > 20e siècle > Expositions
  10. Estampe > Pennsylvanie > Philadelphie > Expositions
  11. Prints
  12. Prints, American
  13. Pennsylvania > Philadelphia
Genre/Form
  1. Exhibition catalogs.
Contents
  1. Forward / Siobhan A. Reardon -- American scenes for American people / Klare Scarborough -- Artists draw a paycheck: the Artists' Union and the battle to establish and maintain government patronage / Carmen Vendelin -- Art as an instrument of social change: North and South of the border / Mey-Yen Moriuchi -- Horatio Forjohn's radio: technology as subject, technique, and influence / Thomas Blum -- History of the La Salle University Art Museum.
Owning institution
  1. Princeton University Library
Note
  1. Catalog of an exhibition held at the La Salle University Art Museum, Philadelphia, PA, Mar. 12-May 30, 2014.
Bibliography (note)
  1. Includes bibliographical references.