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
He grew up poor (during the Depression) outside Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, with his
decorative arts up to the 20th century and to provide work for artists during the Great Depression
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
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
Kansas, and Wood from Iowa, the regionalists rose to prominence during the Great Depression
the midst of two of the 20th century’s most devastating maelstroms—the Great Depression
A look at the prodigy who became so famous for his paintings of animals that a dog breed was named after him.
In middle age, Sir Edwin suffered from severe depression, diagnosed as a nervous
Learn how the documentary photographer got her start and why she dedicated her life to the medium.
stock market crash, much of that work dried up. “Surrounded by evidence of the 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
