Great Depression Art Gallery Various images to explore the impact of the Great Depression.
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Transcript of Great Depression Art Gallery Various images to explore the impact of the Great Depression.
Great Depression Art Gallery
Various images to explore the impact of the Great
Depression.
How to Analyze Art What to look for…
Subject
Color usage, light and shadow
Imagery
Background
Details
Expressions and emotions
Context created
The Crash!!!
James N. Rosenberg, Oct 29 Dies Irae ("Days of Wrath"), 1929
Brooklyn Bridge Emptiness
Louis Lozowick, Brooklyn Bridge (1930)Smithsonian American Art Museum
Brooklyn Bridge is Falling Down, Falling Down, Falling Down….
AE
Banana Men at Work
Mable Dwight, Banana Men, n.d.
No Work
Blanche Grambs, No Work (1935)
Union Square
Reginald Marsh, Union Square (1933)LithographThe Univ. of Michigan Museum of Art
Bar and Grill?
Eli Jacobi, Bar and Grill (n.d.)
Along the East River
Nicolai Cikovsky, On the East River (c. 1934)
Getting Away From it All…
Twenty Cent Movie (Previous Slide)
Reginald Marsh, Twenty Cent Movie (1936)Egg tempera on board30x40in. (76.2x101.6 cm)Whitney Museum of American Art, New York
Strugglin’ to Survive!
Jacob Burck, The Lord Provides (1934)
Scrap drive… AE
Lunch…
Joseph Hirsch, Lunch Hour (1942)
Night Flight…AE
American Gothic
The Art Institute of ChicagoGrant Wood, American (1891-1942) 1930Oil on beaverboardFriends of American Art CollectionAcquired in 1930
Black Sunday, 1935
After the Storm…
Harvesting the Crops
AE
Farm Trouble
AE
Protesting
NA
Lest We Forget
By Ben Shahn, Resettlement Administration, 1937Gouache and watercolor in bound volume
TRIBUTE
The New Deal (Previous Slide)
Conrad A. Albrizio, The New Deal (1934)Affresco by Conrad A. Albrizio, dedicated to President Roosevelt, placed in the auditorium of the Leonardo Da Vinci Art School (149 East 34th Street, NYC)
Back to Work…
Harry Sternberg, Builders (1935-36)
Returning to Home
NA
Working Girls Going Home
By Raphael Soyer, New York City Federal Art Project, WPA, 1937Lithograph
Bibliography
All pictures in presentation are from:http://www.english.uiuc.edu/maps/depression/artgallery.htm unless otherwise noted.
American Gothic is from:http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/sisterwendy/works/ame.html
Dust Bowl pictures are public domain.
Pictures designated as “AE” are from:Dijkstra, Bram. American Expressionism: Art and Social Change 1920-1950. New York: Harry N. Abrams, Inc. 2003.
Pictures designated as “NA” are from:http://www.archives.gov/exhibit_hall/new_deal_for_the_arts/celebrating_the_people1.html