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Estimate: $ 1,000 - $ 1,500
KATHERINE MILHOUS (1894-1977) VISIT PENNSYLVANIA / PRE-REVOLUTIONARY COSTUMES. Rare, uncut proof. Circa 1936. 29 3/4x22 1/2 inches, 76x57 cm. Condition B: tears at edges and through upper margin, affecting image; creases and staining in margins and image. 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. The works of Katherine Milhous offered in this sale all seem to have been pulled from the presses before printing was finished, as they all lack the publishing information that was printed in the bottom margin; "WPA Federal Art Project Pennsylvania." WPA 302, Poster for the People p. 74.
