Helen “Reds” Torr had endured grinding poverty during the early years of the Great Depression
The Minnesota artist’s humanist, ecological pottery contains operating instructions for our shared survival.
“Coming out of the Depression, can you imagine how happy my great aunts and uncles
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
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.
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
Susan Earle (New Haven, 2007), 106–107. [8] See Amy Helene Kirschke, “The Depression
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
