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New Deal Arts

Macbeth
Anthony Velonis (b.1911)
Macbeth
Silkscreen, 1938
Prints & Photographs Division

Often known as "The Voodoo Macbeth," this production of the Negro Theatre Unit, a recipient of employment and training provided by the Federal Theatre Project (FTP), was also directed by Orson Welles for the FTP and played in New York City in 1936. Anthony Velonis, who created this poster for Macbeth, was hired in 1934 to work on the Poster Project and soon started printing with silk screening, a process he initiated, to increase poster production. It is largely due to his influence that the silk screen process has attained a secure place in fine art printmaking.

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