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title: '"Art Week in Chicago" (Illinois WPA Art Project, 1936-1941)'
url: https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/art-week-in-chicago-wpa-1941/
description: A blue line portrait of a woman wearing a winged headpiece marked 'I will', with an eagle, stands on an easel above 'Art Week in Chicago by proclamation
section: Collection
---

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# "Art Week in Chicago" (Illinois WPA Art Project, 1936-1941)

A blue line portrait of a woman wearing a winged headpiece marked 'I will', with an eagle, stands on an easel above 'Art Week in Chicago by proclamation of Hon. Edward J. Kelly, Mayor'. The tell: the mayor's proclamation and the national bird give a week of exhibitions the look of a public occasion.

A poster by the Illinois WPA Art Project, dated 1941 from a verso stamp of 25 March, made for Chicago Mayor Edward J. Kelly and the Chicago Board of Education Art Department. A blue line portrait of a woman in a winged headpiece marked 'I will', with an eagle, stands on an easel above the words announcing Art Week, 16th to 22nd March, by proclamation of the Mayor. The record notes that it promotes the work-relief art programme that produced it. Transfer lends the mayor's proclamation and the eagle to the event, and 'I will', the Chicago motto, serves as a glittering generality.

## Propaganda techniques used in this poster

[Glittering generalities](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/glittering-generalities/) [Transfer](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/transfer/)

## Full record

Region, Country, Medium, Issuer type, Regime, Leader, Audience, Purpose, Themes, Event, Source, Rights

## Text on the object

Original (English) · read from the image, not independently checked

Original (English) · read from the image, not independently checked

```
ART WEEK
in Chicago
I WILL
MARCH 16th to 22nd
BY PROCLAMATION OF...
Hon. Edward J. Kelly Mayor
ART DEPT. CHICAGO BOARD OF EDUCATION
E.W. ROBERTSON
```

[← Army Navy E for excellence in production, Let's keep it flying](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/army-navy-e-production-award-keep-it-flying-1941/) [As I would not be a slave, so I would not be a master →](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/as-i-would-not-be-a-slave-1941/)

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