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Rural Electrification Administration Poster by Lester Beall (1934).
In honor of our country’s birthday bash this Friday, I wanted to share my favorite modernist Americana poster of all time. This poster is part of a series that Lester Beall designed for the U.S Government’s Rural Electrification projects in the 1930’s. The poster’s use of bold stripes and a silhouetted photograph [...]

 
A: Scappoose, Oregon 

Here goes! I’m adding a new category to CoinOp called Graphic History.
Recently, I’ve been reading (or more truthfully ogling) the book Art Deco Textiles by Alain-Rene Hardy. It contains exquisite reproductions of fabrics from France spanning the time period of 1910-1940. My favorite designer from the book was Sonia Delaunay (1895-1979), a Ukrainain-French artist extraodinaire [...]