Sentences with phrase «artists during the depression»

Like many American artists during the Depression, Roszak also found regular work through the Federal Art Project: he taught at the Design Laboratory, a tuition - free, experimental design school opened in 1935 under the aegis of the WPA.

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She was the first of few women accepted into the Artists» Club and participated as an artist in the Works Progress Administration during the depression.

Despite PrintMatters» launching during the worst recession since the Great Depression, what started with a small exhibition of work by the five founding artists has grown so much that in 2014, members voted to seek 501 (c)(3) nonprofit status so they could pursue grants and expand programming.

He studied art at the National Academy of Design and at City College, graduating in 1935, and joined the star - studded roster of the WPA artists, which helped him keep a studio going in Chelsea during the decade - long 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.

In 1931, during the early days of the Depression, before the Works Progress Administration was put in place, an outdoor art exhibition, modeled on those in Europe, was held in Washington Square to help struggling artists make a living.

Throughout his career, Davis was well respected by artist - peers and the art - world cognoscenti, but during the Great Depression in the 1930s, Davis, like most artists, had an especially rough time.

In painting, during the 1920s and the 1930s and the Great Depression, modernism is defined by Surrealism, late Cubism, Bauhaus, De Stijl, Dada, German Expressionism, and Modernist and masterful color painters like Henri Matisse and Pierre Bonnard as well as the abstractions of artists like Piet Mondrian and Wassily Kandinsky which characterized the European art scene.

Many artists over the last few hundred years have created etchings using the copper plate intaglio technique, including Rembrandt, Goya, Dürer, and Richard Coe, whose depictions of Birmingham during the Great Depression are the focus of Magic City Realism: Richard Coe's Birmingham.

Established to help artists survive the Great Depression, these agencies made it possible for Tworkov to continue painting during a time of hardship.

The participating artists were active in the Works Progress Administration during the Great Depression and their works in the portfolio displayed images of oppression and despair as well as of hope for «new life.»

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.

Opening: «Art for Every Home: Associated American Artists, 1934 — 2000» at Grey Art Gallery Started as a means to sell art to the public at a reasonable price during the Great Depression, the Associated American Artists included such well - known artists of the day as Thomas Hart Benton, John Steuart Curry and GranArtists, 1934 — 2000» at Grey Art Gallery Started as a means to sell art to the public at a reasonable price during the Great Depression, the Associated American Artists included such well - known artists of the day as Thomas Hart Benton, John Steuart Curry and GranArtists included such well - known artists of the day as Thomas Hart Benton, John Steuart Curry and Granartists of the day as Thomas Hart Benton, John Steuart Curry and Grant Wood.

In a guide to intriguing art exhibitions nationwide, Judith Dobrzynski features the High Museum of Art's «Walker Evans: Depth of Field», a major international retrospective of Evans» work, including images taken of the American South during the Great Depression; the Denver Art Museum's «Women of Abstract Expression», celebrating the contributions of female artists who helped shape the movement in the 1940s and 1950s; the Met Breuer's «Unfinished: Thoughts Left Visible», the Museum's inaugural exhibition examining works that were never finished by the artists from the 15th century to today; the Asian Art Museum's «Emperors» Treasures: Chinese Art From the National Palace Museum, Taipei», and the Bowdoin College Museum of Art's «This Is a Portrait if I Say So: Identity in American Art, 1912 to Today.»

The exhibition features the 19 lithographs Wood created during the Great Depression that were printed and distributed by Associated American Artists (AAA) as well as two scale drawings of soldiers portrayed in the 24 x 20 ft. stained glass Memorial Window he designed for the Veterans Memorial Building in Cedar Rapids, Iowa (1928 - 29).

The gallery opened in a progressive yet uncertain climate; and hosted a new frontier of young American artists emerging after years of economic depression during the 1930s, along with European émigrés seeking greener pastures.

Oppenheim speaks of growing up in Washington and California, his father's Russian ancestry and education in China, his father's career in engineering, his mother's background and education in English, living in Richmond El Cerrito, his mother's love of the arts, his father's feelings toward Russia, standing out in the community, his relationship with his older sister, attending Richmond High School, demographics of El Cerrito, his interest in athletics during high school, fitting in with the minority class in Richmond, prejudice and cultural dynamics of the 1950s, a lack of art education and philosophy classes during high school, Rebel Without a Cause, Richmond Trojans, hotrod clubs, the persona of a good student, playing by the rules of the art world, friendship with Jimmy De Maria and his relationship to Walter DeMaria, early skills as an artist, art and teachers in high school, attending California College of Arts and Crafts, homosexuality in the 1950s and 1960s, working and attending art school, professors at art school, attending Stanford, early sculptural work, depression, quitting school, getting married, and moving to Hawaii, becoming an entrepreneur, attending the University of Hawaii, going back to art school, radical art, painting, drawing, sculpture, the beats and the 1960s, motivations, studio work, theory and exposure to art, self - doubts, education in art history, Oakland Wedge, earth works, context and possession, Ground Systems, Directed Seeding, Cancelled Crop, studio art, documentation, use of science and disciplines in art, conceptual art, theoretical positions, sentiments and useful rage, Robert Smithson and earth works, Gerry Shum, Peter Hutchinson, ocean work and red dye, breaking patterns and attempting growth, body works, drug use and hippies, focusing on theory, turmoil, Max Kozloff's «Pygmalion Reversed,» artist as shaman and Jack Burnham, sync and acceptance of the art world, machine works, interrogating art and one's self, Vito Acconci, public art, artisans and architects, Fireworks, dysfunction in art, periods of fragmentation, bad art and autobiographical self - exposure, discovery, being judgmental of one's own work, critical dissent, impact of the 1950s and modernism, concern about placement in the art world, Gypsum Gypsies, mutations of objects, reading and writing, form and content, and phases of development.

Hopper fared better than many other artists during the Great Depression.

During the depression, artists such as Thomas Hart Benton and Grant Wood returned to their Midwestern homes to paint local scenes, and the movement is dogged by Wood's American Gothic (1930), whose countless reproductions damn Regionalism to a Norman Rockwell mawkishness.

This exhibition brings together 50 works by some of the foremost artists of the era — including Edward Hopper, Georgia O'Keeffe, and Grant Wood — to examine the landscape of the United States during the Great Depression and the many avenues artists explored as they sought to forge a new national art and identity.

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.

It began with the WPA during the Great Depression, which brought many artists together, producing radical artists» magazines such as Art Front; and it resulted in the Eighth Street Club, which was an informal forum that established visual artists as members of the intelligentsia.

Multiple Moderns: American Art and Artists During the Great Depression.

In 1931, during the early days of the Depression, before the Works Progress Administration was put in place, the exhibition was created to help struggling artists make a living.

Much of the artist's childhood was spent on the nighttime prairie outside his home in North Dakota during the Depression, watching the Northern lights, star showers and solar winds that had significant impact on his visual vocabulary.

Spearheaded by a generation of American artists - strongly influenced by European expatriates - who had grown up during the Depression and were influenced both by World War II and its Cold War aftermath, abstract expressionist painting was neither wholly abstract nor expressionist and encompassed several quite different styles.

«There was a wipeout after the early - nineties art depression and several galleries closed up shop, and he came in during this period when it was wide open and quickly established himself as the most interesting L.A. gallery for the newer generation of artists.»

Trained in Holland as an illustrator he joined the Federal Art Program during the Great Depression and met almost every artist, art critic, writer, poet and musician during this period who would later gain fame and attention in American culture.

Ahead of our America After the Fall exhibition, Debra N. Mancoff spotlights Hart Benton's paintings of idealised rural life during the Great Depression — and his mentorship of an emerging young artist, Jackson Pollock.

The artists points out that, while the car - as - carriage piece may seem like a new idea, it was not such an uncommon sight to see run - down jalopies being pulled by horses during the Great Depression, known then as Hoover Carts.