Today, Merrill C. Berman, whose Weimar catalog of art and politics was covered last week in The Daily Heller, brings another slice of early twentieth century design history to the public feast: “American Posters of the WPA Era, 1935–1943.” Richard Floethe (1901–1988) President Franklin D. Roosevelt’s massive stimulus initiative designed to lift the United States out of the Great Depression, known as the New Deal, spawned the WPA (originally “Works Progress Administration,” an

Merrill C. Berman, the master graphic design connoisseur/collector/archivist, has joined the ranks of the generous in making available the fruits of his acquisitions during these COVID-shut-in times. In 2018–2019, the Busch-Reisinger Museum, Harvard Art Museums presented a gallery rotation titled “Who Owns the World? Art and Politics in the Weimar Republic,” combining Berman’s incredible collection with their own. That installation, organized by cities in Germany that were ho