Great Depression | National Gallery of Art https://www.nga.gov/educational-resources/uncovering-america/great-depression
The Great Depression spanned the years 1929 to about 1939, a period of economic crisis
The Great Depression spanned the years 1929 to about 1939, a period of economic crisis
catalog presents a sweeping retrospective of Philip Guston’s influential work, from Depression-era
catalog presents a sweeping retrospective of Philip Guston’s influential work, from Depression-era
A Federal Art Project dating to the Great Depression, it sought to identify and preserve
A Federal Art Project dating to the Great Depression, it sought to identify and preserve
1939, just as the country was beginning to recover from the ravages of the Great Depression
1939, just as the country was beginning to recover from the ravages of the Great Depression
which employed Davis and many other artists to decorate public buildings during the Depression
which employed Davis and many other artists to decorate public buildings during the Depression
in the Index of American Design, a government-sponsored art project during the Depression
Discover compelling stories of creativity, struggle, and resilience in this new set of resources for K–12 educators featuring works of art that reflect the richness and diversity of the people, places, and cultures of the United States. Encourage creative, critical, and historical thinking in your students as you examine works of art from the country’s creation to the present day.
Transportation Industrial Revolution Manifest Destiny and the West Great Depression
station is one of dozens of interiors Perkins Harnly depicted during the Great Depression
How do visual artists of the Harlem Renaissance explore black identity and political empowerment? How does visual art of the Harlem Renaissance relate to current-day events and issues? How do migration and displacement influence cultural production?
African Americans between the end of World War I (1917) and the onset of the Great Depression
In 1927 James Weldon Johnson, a key figure in the Harlem Renaissance, published his masterwork, God’s Trombones: Seven Negro Sermons in Verse. Each sermon-poem was accompanied by an illustration by Aaron Douglas, a young African American artist who had recently settled in Harlem. Several years later, Douglas began translating his illustrations into large oil paintings. The Judgment Day is the final work in a series of eight. At the center, a powerful angel Gabriel stands astride the earth and sea. With the trumpet call, the archangel summons nations of the earth to judgment.
a cultural movement that began in the early 1920s and extended until the Great Depression