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Estimate: $ 1,000 - $ 1,500
LOUIS B. SIEGRIEST (1899-1989) INDIAN COURT / FEDERAL BUILDING. 1939. 35 3/4x25 inches, 90 3/4x63 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).
