"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
- Date
- 1941
- Period
- Second World War
- Made by
- Illinois WPA Art Project, for Chicago Mayor Edward J. Kelly and the Chicago Board of Education Art Department
Full record
Region, Country, Medium, Issuer type, Regime, Leader, Audience, Purpose, Themes, Event, Source, Rights
- Region
- North America
- Country
- United States
- Medium
- Poster
- Issuer type
- State
- Regime
- Roosevelt Administration
- Leader
- Franklin D. Roosevelt
- Audience
- Domestic public
- Purpose
- Commemorate
- Themes
- Economy and finance, Home front
- Event
- New Deal
- Regime
- Roosevelt administration
- Leader
- Franklin D. Roosevelt
- Source
- Identified Openly sourced: the speaker is who they say they are
- Source
- Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division, retrieved October 10, 2026
- Rights
- Public domain (U.S. federal WPA work); LoC: no known restrictions on publication
Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division, LCCN 98508354. "Art Week in Chicago" (Illinois WPA Art Project, 1936-1941)
Text on the object
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
