Dein Suchergebnis zum Thema: Depression

In 1899 an unknown photographer documented the interior of a cotton gin operation in Dahomey, Mississippi. The image reveals the challenging and stifling work of processing raw cotton in the humidity of the southern United States. In the foreground, African Americans pack and press cotton into a massive bale.
Illustrators were hired by the federal government as part of a Depression-era work-relief

In this photograph, journalist and musician Celeste Headlee hears Lenox Avenue, a suite her grandfather William Grant Still named after Harlem’s main street. This portrait captures the pride of Black Americans achieving success during the Harlem Renaissance despite systemic injustice. 
I find it fascinating that this is right at the beginning of the Great Depression

The US national park system exists in part because of artists.
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Painted in August 1907, Forty-two Kids depicts a band of nude and partially clothed boys engaged in a variety of antics—swimming, diving, sunbathing, smoking, and possibly urinating—on and near a dilapidated wharf jutting out over New York City’s East River. A sharp observer of urban life, George Bellows has sketched his streetwise subjects with characteristic vigor and economy of means, and he has carefully rendered their varied ethnic backgrounds.
American Painting from the Armory Show to the Depression.

birth to a son, Milton Sprague Stearns Jr., in 1923, she suffered a postpartum depression

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a cultural movement that began in the early 1920s and extended until the Great Depression

Use your smartphone to explore a wide range of works through the voices of National Gallery of Art curators. Set your own pace by listening to as many stops as you like in the order you choose. Don’t forget to bring your headphones! To listen to information about a work of art, enter the stop number in the box below, select „go“, and press the play button when the stop appears. This tour is available in Español, Français, PуÑ�Ñ�кий, 中文, 日本語, and 한국어.  
a cultural movement that began in the early 1920s and extended until the Great Depression

Wyeth Fellow, 1997–1999 "Racial Art" and African-American Artists in the Early Depression

surface of this sculpture is covered with shallow, cuplike and deep rectangular depressions