Pennsylvania German Folk Art WPA Silk Screen Prints Portfolio 1943 Fraktur MET

by The Index of American Design

$351 · Offered by eBay

First edition

.no-subscribe { display: none} [contenteditable] { pointer-events: none; } PENNSYLVANIA GERMAN DESIGNS A Portfolio of Silk Screen Prints by The Index of American Design The National Gallery of Art. Research by the Pennsylvania WPA Art Project. Published by The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, November 1943. First edition. Very good portfolio in cloth-backed boards with printed terra cotta and white covers. Some rubbing wear and tears to folder/cover, very good hand silkscreened color plates mounted on heavy card, with descriptive text on the verso. CONDITION NOTES: Minor soil, light wear to the plates, some dampstaining to plate 17. Folio (14 x 11 inches), complete, illustrated with 20 laid-in silk screen plates plus 4-page text insert. The Index of American Design stands as one of the New Deal's most consequential cultural achievements—a massive undertaking that deployed hundreds of unemployed artists across thirty-four states to document America's vanishing material culture before it disappeared into the accelerating churn of the twentieth century. This portfolio represents a singular collaboration between that ambitious federal project and the Creative Printmakers Group, the pioneering New York studio founded by Anthony Velonis and his colleagues that transformed silk screen printing from a commercial process into a legitimate fine art medium. Each of the twenty plates reproduces decorative details from Pennsylvania German folk art—the tulips, hearts, and stylized dis

• Publisher: The Metropolitan Museum of Art
• Year: 1943
• Binding: Hardcover
• Condition: Very Good

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