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LOUIS B. SIEGRIEST (1899-1989)
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INDIAN COURT / FEDERAL BUILDING. 1939.
35
3
/
4
x25 inches, 90
3
/
4
x63
1
/
2
cm. Federal Arts Project, W.P.A., San Francisco.
Condition B+: repaired tears, creases and restoration in margins and image; minor restored losses and
repaired pin holes in corners. Silkscreen.
Siegriest “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 1920s, prior to his working for
the WPA / FAP. For the year and half of this employment, he was the sole artist on the Federal Art
Project in San Francisco . . . [to promote an exhibition honoring Native American culture in the
Indian Court at the Golden Gate International Exposition, Siegriest designed eight different posters,
for which he] selected images representing the Navajo, Pueblo, Haida, Plains, Chippewa, Seneca,
Eskimo and Apache tribal nations . . . 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 86,
For the People p. 88, Resnick 32 (var), American Style 90 (var).
[1,000/1,500]
DESIGNER UNKNOWN
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MICH. FOOD AND BEVERAGE SHOW / DETROIT AND MICHIGAN EXPOSITION.
1938.
23
3
/
4
x14 inches, 60
1
/
4
x36
1
/
2
cm.
Condition A: minor creases at edges; minor abrasions in image. Printed on card.
[600/900]
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