In this series, chefs, farmers, historians, scholars, and other thinkers share their takes on food, consumption, cooking, and eating.
In this print, created sometime after the Depression and before the end of the second
Aaron Douglas, widely acknowledged as one of the most accomplished and influential visual artists of the Harlem Renaissance, was born in Topeka, Kansas, on May 26, 1899. He attended a segregated primary school, McKinley Elementary, and Topeka High School, which was integrated.
Harlem’s cultural community—albeit now a community severely impacted by 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.
Victoria and Albert Museum, London In middle age, Sir Edwin suffered from severe depression
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
Stuart Davis was born on December 7, 1892, to a family of artists. His mother, Helen Stuart Foulke, was a prominent sculptor who exhibited at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts.
Davis returned to New York on the eve of the Great Depression in 1929 and settled
When you think about the US West, what images and stories come to mind?
pioneer—was painted by an artist hired by the US government during the Great Depression
The US government once employed artists to draw pictures of designs from historical objects. The idea is reimagined by artists today.
a national enterprise that employed a diverse group of people during the Great Depression
Kansas, and Wood from Iowa, the regionalists rose to prominence during the Great Depression
Few individuals have exerted as strong an influence on 20th-century American art and culture as the photographer and art dealer Alfred Stieglitz. Born in Hoboken, New Jersey, in 1864 during the Civil War, Stieglitz lived until 1946.
most profound changes this country has ever experienced: two world wars, the Great Depression
The acclaimed Delaware artist first brought his artistic ambitions to life drawing decorative art objects for the Work Progress Administration project.
He came of age during the Great Depression, and struggled to find work to provide
