Design for poster for The Devil Passes
By an unknown artist for the Federal Theatre Project, Works Progress Administration,
ca. 1937
Ink over pencil on board
8 3/4" x 6 3/4" National Archives and Records Administration, Records of the Work Projects
Administration
Federal
Theatre Project Designs: Posters Federal Theatre Project posters were often designed
and printed by the Federal Art Project, another of the New Deal cultural
programs that gave work to artists and graphic designers. Art Project
workers developed a variation of the silkscreen process, which allowed
for mass-produced paper copies from the original design. This technique
enabled the Project's poster division to print more than 2 million posters
for the Theatre Project, as well as for other federal, state, and local
government agencies. Here are two examples.