the midst of two of the 20th century’s most devastating maelstroms—the Great Depression
Peer into the American past with a collection of Great Depression–era watercolors.
Index was a Works Progress Administration project started in 1936, 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
A look at the prodigy who became so famous for his paintings of animals that a dog breed was named after him.
Victoria and Albert Museum, London In middle age, Sir Edwin suffered from severe depression
Learn how the documentary photographer got her start and why she dedicated her life to the medium.
stock market crash, much of that work dried up. “Surrounded by evidence of the Depression
Stuart Davis was born on December 7, 1892, to a family of artists. His mother, Helen Stuart Foulke, was a prominent sculptor who exhibited at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts.
Davis returned to New York on the eve of the Great Depression in 1929 and settled
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
This 19th-century dinner dress captured in the Index of American Design gives us a glimpse of how the wealthy dressed for dinner.
In a post-Depression United States, some designers strove for a new simplicity, distinct
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
Nearly every artist makes drawings at some point. Some use them as a way of thinking, jotting ideas down as quickly as they occur. Such rough sketches can offer fascinating glimpses into the artist’s imagination or their process. Meanwhile, many artists make elaborate drawings as finished works.
A Federal Art Project dating to the Great Depression, it sought to identify and preserve
