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
Depression and exhaustion pervade this somber image.
Crawford Notch, a deep valley in New Hampshire’s White Mountains, gained notoriety in 1826 when nine lives were lost in a catastrophic avalanche nearby. Cole’s painting depicts the site of an earlier landslide whose destruction prompted the victims—Mr.
1967 (in NGA curatorial files), states that it was sold "in the depth of the great depression
When his friend Marcotte first suggested that Ingres paint Ines Moitessier, the wife of a financier and jurist, he demurred. Ingres changed his mind after being struck by her „terrible et belle tête“ (terrible and beautiful head.) The author Théophile Gautier described her as „Junolike,“ and Ingres presents her with the imposing remoteness of a Roman goddess.
second attempt was begun after the aging artist—he was 71—had been roused from depression
There is perhaps no individual who embodies the power of photography more than Gordon Parks.
waiter on the North Coast Limited passenger train, Parks saw magazines featuring Depression-era
Edward Hopper’s lifelong enthusiasm for the sea developed when he was a boy in Nyack, New York, then a prosperous Hudson River port with an active shipyard. Years later, in 1934, he and his wife built a house and studio in South Truro, Massachusetts, where he produced a number of oil paintings and watercolors manifesting his avid interest in nautical subjects.
Amerika: Traum und Depression, 1920/40. Exh.cat.
Stieglitz recorded the frenzied building boom that transformed New York in the Great Depression
