Anthony Velonis working on a poster matrix in the photography and reproduction department, Lowry Field (CO), ca. 1943
type
Photography
created
ca. 1943
posted
2024-06-24
classification number
LC-USZC2-5135 (reproduction number) OU Unprocessed in PR 13 CN 1991:200.35 (call number)
description
Artist/producer Anthony Velonis helped transform screenprinting into a viable fine arts medium. In the 1930s, the WPA’s Federal Art Project was created to employ artists during America’s Great Depression and to bring art into the lives of ordinary citizens. Velonis saw screenprinting as an affordable medium with great aesthetic potential. His pamphlet “Technical Problems of the Artist: Technique of the Silkscreen Process” helped to popularize screenprinting in the postwar period. After leaving the WPA, he founded the Creative Printmakers Group, which produced fine arts prints as well as commercial posters. (Ellen Lupton)
credits
- Domaine public
- Library of Congress Prints and Photography Division
from outer collection
user rights
Utilisation documentaire à des fins de recherche académique dans le cadre de la plateforme Problemata