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
€œRedsâ€� Torr had endured grinding poverty during the early years of the Great Depression
The artisans from the tiny town of Gee’s Bend, Alabama, have been making a global impact for generations.
But the Depression started the first exodus. “There used to be a lot of people
The Minnesota artist’s humanist, ecological pottery contains operating instructions for our shared survival.
what the land gives, and banking those gifts for the future. “Coming out of the Depression
Aaron Douglas painted The Judgment Day in 1939, more than a decade after creating the book illustration on which the painting is based. In 1927 Douglas had provided eight strikingly original illustrations for a collection of poems titled God’s Trombones:
a cultural movement that began in the early 1920s and extended until the Great Depression
art world with a long career behind him, and yet like so many artists during the Depression
Auguste Rodin was born in 1840, the second child and only son of Jean-Baptiste Rodin and Marie Cheffer, first-generation Parisians of modest means. Nothing in his family background or situation suggested that he might become an artist.
surrounding the two commissions, and Rodin spent much of the 1890s in a severe depression
aerial photography for the army during World War I, Steichen suffered bouts of depression
In 1775, Gilbert Stuart set sail for London where Benjamin West welcomed the destitute young man into his home. The Skater marks the end of his five-year apprenticeship to West.
Gilbert Stuart and the Impact of Manic Depression.
[8] See Amy Helene Kirschke, “The Depression Murals of Aaron Douglas: Radical
