LOUIS B. SIEGRIEST (1899-1989) INDIAN COURT / FEDERAL BUILDING. 1939. 35 3/4x25 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).
