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Vera Bock - Haiti, a drama of the black Napoleon

Haiti, a drama of the black Napoleon (1938)

Vera Bock (American, 1905 - 1973)
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Vera Bock was a Russian-born artist who spent most of her career in the United States. She is known for her book illustrations and for the posters she made for the Works Progress Administration during the Great Depression.

Vera Bock was born in Saint Petersburg, Russia on 4 April 1905. Her father was an American banker and her mother was a Russian concert pianist. During the Russian Revolution her family fled to the United States by way of Siberia, China and Japan. They reached San Francisco in 1917. Bock later studied in Switzerland and England. She was trained in painting and drawing, and spent a year in England studying woodcutting, manuscript illumination, printing and photogravure.

Bock may be best known for her children’s book illustrations. Her first book illustrations were published in 1929 in Waldemar Bonsels’s The Adventures of Maya the Bee and Ella Young's The Tangle-Coated Horse and Other Tales. The latter book was reviewed for the Newbery Medal in 1930, and was retroactively given Honor Book status in 1938. The Kerlan Collection of Children's Literature at the University of Minnesota holds many of Bock's illustrations.

Bock designed posters for the Federal Art Project of the Works Progress Administration during the Great Depression. She worked for the New York City poster division from 1936 to 1939. Bock's bold Art Deco posters advertised art exhibitions and theater performances, and encouraged activities like travel, exercise, community events, educational programs, writing letters, and saving trees. Her silkscreen posters have a distinctive appearance similar to woodblocks, dominated by strong solid forms that often show a Germanic influence. She made a series of posters, History of Civic Services, which are reminiscent of the forms she often used in children's books.

During the 1940s Bock worked as an illustrator for Life and Coronet. Her work was shown in exhibitions at the New York Public Library (1942), Art Directors Club of New York (1946), Pierpont Morgan Library (International Exhibition of Illustrated Books, 1946), and New York Public Library (Ten Year's of American Illustration, 1951). Bock retired to Lincolnville, Maine. She died in New York in 1973.

In Collection: Works Progress Administration (WPA) Posters (View all 81)

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October’s ‘bright blue weather’ A good time to read! (1936)

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Train to be a nurse’s aide

Train to be a nurse’s aide (1941-1943)

Anonymous
Protect her from tuberculosis

Protect her from tuberculosis (1936-1938)

Erik Hans Krause (American, 1899-1990)
The President’s birthday ball

The President’s birthday ball (1936-1939)

Anonymous
The W.P.A. Federal Theatre Negro Unit presents Macbeth by William Shakespeare

The W.P.A. Federal Theatre Negro Unit presents Macbeth by William Shakespeare (1936)

Anthony Velonis (American, 1911-1997)
Antelope hunt from a Navaho drawing, New Mexico

Antelope hunt from a Navaho drawing, New Mexico (1939)

Louis Siegriest (American, 1899 -1989)
Craft school

Craft school (1936-1938)

Jerome Henry Rothstein (American, 1918-2008)
Eliminate crime in the slums through housing

Eliminate crime in the slums through housing (1936)

Anonymous
Strictly business

Strictly business (1936-1939)

John Buczak (American, 20th Century)
Uncle Vanya

Uncle Vanya (1936)

Anonymous
This breaks the back of a book!

This breaks the back of a book! (1936)

Arlington Gregg (American, 1909 - 1964)
Blind Alley Alcatraz

Blind Alley Alcatraz (1936)

James Warwick (American, 20th Century)
Free classes – trade and technical

Free classes – trade and technical (1936-1941)

Anonymous
Keep your teeth clean

Keep your teeth clean (1936-1938)

Anonymous
Nurse the baby Your protection against trouble

Nurse the baby Your protection against trouble (1936-1939)

Erik Hans Krause (American, 1899-1990)
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