Aug 05, 2009 - Sale 2185

Sale 2185 - Lot 323

Price Realized: $ 960
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 1,000 - $ 1,500
KATHERINE MILHOUS (1894-1977) VISIT PENNSYLVANIA / PRE-REVOLUTIONARY COSTUMES. Circa 1936.
24 1/2x18 3/4 inches, 63x48 cm.
Condition A-: minor tears and creases at edges; discoloration in margins. Paper.
"Katherine Milhous created some of the most distinctive posters produced by the WPA. She was a supervisor of the FAP [Federal Arts Project] in Philadelphia (her birthplace and lifelong home), from 1935-1940. . . Her deep affection for the locality's history and people is apparent in her depictions of the Amish and Mennonites" (WPA p. 164). This is one of a series of at least eight posters she designed for the Pennsylvania Works Progress Administration, all having to do with rural Pennsylvania Dutch culture. "WPA Federal Art Project Pennsylvania." WPA 302, Poster for the People p. 74.