Sentences with phrase «york during the depression»

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According to the New York State Department of Health, «the term perinatal depression encompasses a wide range of mood disorders that can affect a woman during pregnancy and after the birth of her child.

During her address at the forum co-sponsored by Care for the Homeless and Long Island University's Master of Public Administration program, James noted that as of April 17, there are more than 61,000 individuals sleeping in the city's shelter system, which includes 23,000 children — and said that homelessness «is at the highest level in New York since the Great Depression.»

«As the 111th Congress completes its work on behalf of the American people, I'd like to thank New York's delegation for its service during the worst economic downturn since the Great Depression,» Governor Paterson said.

Citizens Budget Commission began scrutinizing state and city budgets in New York during the Great Depression in the 1930s.

Set in and around New York City during the Great Depression, Annie opens in a girls» orphanage run by the needy, alcoholic, inhospitable Miss Hannigan (Carol Burnett).

During the Depression era, the ASPCA in New York recorded over 300,000 stray animals per year.

Gorky soon became a prominent figure in the New York art scene, but an unfortunate series of accidents and health problems during the mid 1940s led to severe depression culminating in his suicide in 1948.

I was a good audience for her, because I was very interested to hear what it was like to live in New York City during the Depression.

Born into a poor family in Wilkes - Barre, Pennsylvania, Kline was educated in a school for fatherless boys — his father having committed suicide in 1917 — and went on to study painting in Boston and then in London.He returned to the States after marrying, made «jazz murals» and found employment as a graphic artist for the WPA during the Depression, settling in downtown New York City in 1939, quite down on his luck.

Iconic works include New York's landmark Chrysler Building (designed by alumnus and architect William van Alen), groundbreaking covers of Esquire magazine (designed by alumnus and master communicator George Lois), Sesame Street's beloved Big Bird (created by Jim Henson and brought to life by faculty member and master puppet builder Kermit Love), Scrabble (conceived by alumnus and out - of - work architect Alfred Mosher Butts during the Depression), the sleek Corvette C5 (redesigned by alumnus and industrial designer John Cafaro), OXO Good Grips (co-launched by alumnus and industrial designer Tucker Viemeister), and the Dunkin Donuts logo (colors and typeface selected by alumna, faculty member, and industrial designer Lucia DeRespinis).

A cinematic performance based on figures who lived in New York State during the Great Depression.

In New York, he studied with Reginald Marsh at the Art Students League in the 1940s, and became attuned to Marsh's gritty brand of social realism, honed during the Depression.

Unlike Georgia, who had the early support and promotional expertise of her husband, Alfred Stieglitz, Ida struggled to keep one foot in the art world of New York while teaching on short - term contracts at various colleges along the Eastern seaboard, the South, and the Midwest during the Great Depression of the 1930s.

on view from May 29 - September 30, 2015, charts the artist's beginnings in a small Mississippi farming town during the Great Depression to his journey to New York's avant - garde art scene and his career as a influential teacher at Yale Universiy and the University of Massachusetts at Amherst.

She studied at Cooper Union, the National Academy of Design, the Art Students League of New York, and worked as an artist for the WPA during the Depression.

During the Great Depression, he met Willem de Kooning, with whom, and other abstract expressionists, he founded the New York School.

In September 1935, at 22 years of age, he moved to New York where he worked as an artist in the WPA program during the Great Depression.

Born in Brooklyn, New York in 1928, he grew up in the East Bronx, the son of a poor Jewish family thrown onto welfare during the depression.

During the Depression in New York, Pollock was desperately poor, often ill, and already (by 1936 - 7) plagued by alcoholism.

During the Depression of the 1930s, Davis taught at the Art Students League in New York, and also produced murals and other works for the Federal Art Project (Swing Landscape, 1938, Indiana University of Art).

One evaluation conducted in Queensland, Australia, reported moderate reductions in depressive symptoms for mothers in the intervention group at the six - week follow - up.89 A subsequent follow - up, however, suggested that these benefits were not long lasting, as the depression effects had diminished by one year.90 Similarly, Healthy Families San Diego identified reductions in depression symptoms among program mothers during the first two years, but these effects, too, had diminished by year three.91 In Healthy Families New York, mothers at one site (that was supervised by a clinical psychologist) had lower rates of depression at one year (23 percent treatment vs. 38 percent controls).92 The Infant Health and Development program also demonstrated decreases in depressive symptoms after one year of home visiting, as well as at the conclusion of the program at three years.93 Among Early Head Start families, maternal depressive symptoms remained stable for the program group during the study and immediately after it ended, but decreased just before their children entered kindergarten.94 No program effects were found for maternal depression in the Nurse - Family Partnership, Hawaii Healthy Start, Healthy Families Alaska, or Early Start programs.

During the Depression, Murphy consolidated his business and moved to New York City.