What is a WPA poster?

What is a WPA poster?

The Work Projects Administration (WPA) Poster Collection consists of 907 posters produced from 1936 to 1943 by various branches of the WPA. Of the 2,000 WPA posters known to exist, the Library of Congress’s collection of more than 900 is the largest.

Who makes the National Park posters?

The talented artists of Anderson Design Group are finishing what the WPA began, hand-illustrating original travel poster designs for all of our National Parks (with new angles and perspectives added all the time).

Is WPA art public domain?

The goal for WPA artworks as stated by the Federal Government is that they were meant to be available to the public. From what I understand, most of the WPA works depending on the particular program were created by “employees,” and would be in the public domain.

What style are the National Park posters?

Each national park poster is designed in the authentic and iconic style of WPA era Federal Art Projects.

Is the WPA still around today?

Despite these attacks, the WPA is celebrated today for the employment it offered to millions during the darkest days of the Great Depression, and for its lasting legacy of smartly designed, well-built schools, dams, roads, bridges and other buildings and structures – many of which are still in use today.