The Met presents over 5,000 years of art from around the world for everyone to experience and enjoy.
between 1913 and 1939—a period marked by two world wars, a global pandemic, the Great Depression
His abiding feeling for the land and his belief in man’s need for a direct relationship with nature were essential to his concept of an “organic architecture.”
At home, the economic constraints of the Depression compounded his professional problems
The German expatriate Hans Hofmann (1880–1966) became the most influential teacher of modern art in the United States, and his impact reached both artists and critics.
The Great Depression yielded two popular art movements, Regionalism and Social Realism
Abramovitz often featured skeletons and skulls in his prints made after the Great Depression
Wangen-am-Aar, Switzerland, 1856–Columbus, Ohio,1934
Due to the loss of Howald’s support and the financial strain of the Great Depression
Mâcon, France, 1895–Villefranche-sur-Mer, France, 1986
the market for these objects, which had diminished as a result of the worldwide depression
The Met presents over 5,000 years of art from around the world for everyone to experience and enjoy.
Fifty-seventh Street in November 1931, the city was in the throes of the Great Depression
Berlin, 1910–Beverly Hills, Ca., 1975
As the Great Depression led to a decline in the Parisian art market throughout the
horizontal ridges; on bottom, three raised concentric circles surrounding small central depression
Odessa, Ukraine, 1900–New York, 1970
LaGuardia and Nelson Rockefeller to assist artists struggling during the Great Depression
