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(Book Club of California) WPA Federal Art Project - Printmaking in California 1935-1943 Author: Seaton, Elizabeth Place Published: San Francisco Publisher: Book Club of California Date Published: 2005 Description: 132 pp. Illustrated throughout from color and b&w prints. (Folio) blue cloth, spine lettered in yellow, clear acetate jacket. One of 450 copies designed by Patrick Reagh. First Edition. Author's acknowledgements, prospectus and errata slip are laid in. BCC Publication No. 220. "Until now, the busy fine-art printmaking workshops established in California by government jobs agencies during the Great Depression have received little attention in American art histories. But of the twenty-three states that sponsored printmaking under the auspices of the Works Progress Administration Federal Art Project (FAP), California was one of the leading producers of lithographs, etchings, woodcuts, and other fine art prints." - Prospectus. Condition: Faint touches of wear to boards; else fine. Item#: 365159 Headline: WPA Printmaking in California 1935-1943