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LOUIS B. SIEGRIEST (1899-1989)
113 • INDIAN COURT / FEDERAL BUILDING. 1939.
35
3
/
4
x25 inches, 91x63
1
/
2
cm. Federal Art Project, WPA.
Condition B+: repaired tears in margins; minor restoration and abrasions in image. Silk-screen.
As part of the Federal Art Project sponsored by the Works Progress Administration, Louis Siegriest
designed eight posters for the exhibition that honored Native American culture in the Indian Court at
the Golden Gate International Exposition. For each of these posters he “selected images representing
the Navaho, Pueblo, Haida, Plains, Chippewa, Seneca, Eskimo and Apache tribal nations” (WPA p.
55). WPA 83, For the People p. 91, Resnick 32 (var), American Style 90 (var).
[1,500/2,000]
LOUIS B. SIEGRIEST (1899-1989)
114 • INDIAN COURT / FEDERAL BUILDING. 1939.
36x25
1
/
4
inches, 91
1
/
2
x64 cm. Federal Art Project, WPA.
Condition B+: minor restoration and repaired tears at edges; abrasions in image. Silk-screen.
“By the time Siegriest had begun to work for the Federal Art Project he “had already made a major
contribution to California painting as a member of the ‘Society of Six,’ the Oakland based group of
plein air or outdoor artists of the 1920’s . . . For the year and half of this employment, he was the sole
artist on the Federal Art Project in San Francisco . . . . . . the production of the posters was done by
the WPA / FAP poster unit housed in the lower level of a boat anchored off Treasure Island” (WPA p.
55). WPA 81, For the People p. 91, Resnick 32 (var), American Style 90 (var).
[1,500/2,000]