This was no small feat; the pervasive mood of a post-Depression era America exuded suspicion of and derision towards what was considered at the time a European art form; the de-moralized public and
critics alike in the United States throughout the 1930s and 1940s vastly preferred the narrative and representational redemption in
Social Realist and Regionalist art which sought to reassure their beleaguered souls of the values which were truly American.