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A Depression Art Gallery


 

 

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Robert Minor. Pittsburgh (1916)
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Robert Minor, Morgan, Mellon, and Rockefeller (c. 1922)
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Thomas Hart Benton, Boomtown (1928)
Memorial Art Gallery, University of Rochester

 

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Louis Lozowick, Hanover Square (1929)
Smithsonian Art Museum
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James N. Rosenberg, Oct 29 Dies Irae ("Days of Wrath"), 1929
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Edward Hopper, Railroad Sunset (1929)
Whitney Museum of American Art
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Louis Lozowick, Brooklyn Bridge (1930)
Smithsonian American Art Museum
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Raphael Soyer (1899-1987), Furnished Room
n.d., etching
7 by 8 3/4 in.
Sheldon Memorial Art Gallery and Sculpture Garden, Univ. of Nebraska-Lincoln
U.S. Government WPA Allocation
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Mabel Dwight, In the Crowd (1931)
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Mable Dwight, Banana Men, n.d.
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Clare Leighton, Loading (1931)
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Diego Rivera, Frozen Assets (1931)
Fresco 239 x 188 cm.
Collection of Dolores Olmedo
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Diego Rivera, from Detroit Industry (1932)
Copyright © The Detroit Institute of Arts
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William Gropper, The Coffee Pot (1932)
Pen and ink, 16"x12"
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Edward Hopper, Room in Brooklyn (1932)
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
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Hugo Gellert, The Working Day, no. 37 (c. 1933)
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Reginald Marsh (1898-1954), The Park Bench (1933)
Tempera on masonite mounted on panel
24 by 36 in.
Sheldon Memorial Art Gallery and Sculpture Garden, Univ. of Nebraska-Lincoln
Nebraska Art Association Collection
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Reginald Marsh, Union Square (1933)
Lithograph
The Univ. of Michigan Museum of Art
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Hugo Gellert, Primary Accumlation 19 (1933)
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Arnold Ness Klagstad, Archer Daniels Midland Elevator (1933)
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Thomas Hart Benton, Mine Strike
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Alice Neel, Investigation Of Property At The Russell Sage Foundation (1934)
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Beh Shahn, Village Speakeasy Closed for Violation, c. 1934
Gouache, Mural Project for Central Park Casino
Museum of the City of New York
Copyright © 1997 Estate of Ben Shahn/Licensed by VAGA, New York
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Alberta Kinsey, Fish Market (1934)
NMAA
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Harry William Scheuch, Finishing the Cathedral of Learning (1934, Pittsburgh)
NMAA
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Arthur Durston, Industry (1934)
NMAA
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Raphael Soyer, Waterfront (1934)
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Anton Refregier, San Francisco '34 Waterfront Strike (1940-48)
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Jacob Burck, The Lord Provides (1934)
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Nicolai Cikovsky, On the East River (c. 1934)
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John Stewart Curry, Manhunt (1934)
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Conrad A. Albrizio, The New Deal (1934)
Affresco by Conrad A. Albrizio, dedicated to President Roosevelt, placed in the auditorium of the Leonardo Da Vinci Art School (149 East 34th Street, NYC)
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Thomas Hart Benton, Lord, Heal the Child (1934)
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Blanche Grambs, No Work (1935)
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Diego Rivera, The flower carrier (1935)
Oil and tempera on masonite
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art
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William Gropper, Miners (1935)
Watercolor, 11"x11"
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Harry Sternberg, Builders (1935-36)
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Ben Shahn (American, b. Lithuania, 1898-1969)
East Side Soap Box (Roosevelt Mural Study), 1936
Gouache; 18 1/2 x 12 1/4 in.; 47 x 31.1 cm
The Jewish Museum, New York. Museum Purchase with funds
provided by Deana Bezark in memory of Leslie Bezark,
and by Mrs. Jack N. Berkman, Susan and Arthur
Fleischer, Dr. Jack Allen and Shirley Kaplan Fund,
Hanni and Peter Kaufmann, Hyman L. and Joan C. Sall;
and Bequest of Margaret Goldstein, 1995-61
(c) The Jewish Museum, New York.
Photo by John Parnell (c) Estate of Ben Shahn
Licensed by VAGA, New York, NY
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Reginald Marsh, Twenty Cent Movie (1936)
Egg tempera on board
30x40in. (76.2x101.6 cm)
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York
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David Alfaro Siqueiros, Workman
lithograph (1936)
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Julius Weiss, Group of Men (n.d., linoleum cut)
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Eli Jacobi, Bar and Grill (n.d.)
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Eli Jacobi, All Night Mission (n.d.)
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Hugo Gellert, A Wounded Striker and the Soldier (1936)
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Louis Lozowick, Lynching (Lynch Law) (1936)
Smithsonian American Art Museum
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Prentiss Taylor, Assembly Church (1936)
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Thomas Hart Benton, "Kansas City," from Politics, Farming, and the Law,
Missouri State Museum (1936)
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M. Lois Murphy, Weighing Fish (1936-37)
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William Gropper, Construction of the Dam (1937)
NMAA
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William Gropper, Youngstown Strike, (c.1937)
Oil on canvas, 20x40" (50.8x101.6cm.)
Butler Institute of American Art (Ohio)
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Joe Jones, Wasteland (1937)
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Philip Evergood, Sorrowing Farmers (1938)
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Louis Lozowick, Guts of Manhattan (1939)
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Joe Jones, Men and Wheat (Seneca, Kansas, 1939)
NMAA
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Reginal Marsh, Grand Tier at the Met (1939)
Watercolor and goauche. 22 1/8 x 30 3/8 in. (56 x 77 cm)
Gift of Sylvia Brody Axelrad and Sidney Axelrad.
The Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art, Cornell University
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Moses Soyer, Artists on W.P.A (1939)
NMAA
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Thomas Hart Benton, The Sower (1939)
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Elizabeth Olds, Miner Joe (1940)
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William Gropper, Automobile Industry (Detroit, 1941)
NMAA
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Jerry Bywaters, Lumber Mill Interior (1941-42, Trinity, Texas)
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Joseph Hirsch, Lunch Hour (1942)
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