How Grant Wood, Georgia O’Keeffe, and Thomas Hart Benton depicted the humble structures—and how they mask the struggles of farmers today.
Wood’s nostalgia is a key feature of his regionalism, a Depression-era art movement
The United States is frequently described as a “nation of immigrants.� Immigrants have played a pivotal role in the country’s history and understanding of itself.
workers who moved around following harvests and looking for work during the Great Depression
Harry Cooper is the National Gallery of Art’s Bunny Mellon Curator of Modern Art. He is the first to hold the role, created in 2024 following the generous gift of the Gerard B. Lambert Foundation.
catalog presents a sweeping retrospective of Philip Guston’s influential work, from Depression-era
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
decorative arts up to the 20th century and to provide work for artists during the Great Depression
He grew up poor (during the Depression) outside Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, with his
George Morrison (Grand Portage Band of Chippewa, 1919–2000) is perhaps best known for his brilliantly colored paintings of the late 1950s and 1960s, and his wood collages begun in the mid-1960s. The National Gallery of Art has acquired Morrison’s Untitled (1961), expanding its significant collection of abstract expressionist works by adding this key voice, and the first work by a Native American, to its New York School holdings.
After working for the Depression-era Works Progress Administration in high school
Arthur Garfield Dove was born in Canandaigua in the Finger Lakes region of New York on August 2, 1880, and was raised in nearby Geneva. His father, a brickyard owner and building contractor, named him after the Republican presidential and vice presidential candidates in the election that year, James Garfield and Chester Arthur.
Duncan Phillips, who became his main patron and supported him during the Great Depression
the midst of two of the 20th century’s most devastating maelstroms—the Great Depression
Peer into the American past with a collection of Great Depression–era watercolors.
Index was a Works Progress Administration project started in 1936, during the Great Depression
