Dein Suchergebnis zum Thema: 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

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

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

Learn how the documentary photographer got her start and why she dedicated her life to the medium.
“Surrounded by evidence of the Depression,” in her words, she began to reconsider

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

in the midst of two of the 20th century’s most devastating maelstroms—the Great Depression

Read, Watch, Listen: Stories, articles, videos, blogs, and podcasts from the National Gallery
Index of American Design Peer into the American past with a collection of Great Depression–era

Four everyday Americans were the subject of her famous photographs. Discover the heartbreak and suffering they faced at crucial points in American history.
captures the worry, need, and insecurity of everyday Americans during the Great Depression

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