The American Scene: Graphics of the 1930s and 1940s
Exhibition
Exhibition Overview
The American Scene: Graphics of the 1930s and 1940s
Elizabeth Wright, curator
White Gallery, Spencer Museum of Art, University of Kansas, Lawrence, Kansas
Prints and photographs from the permanent collection demonstrated that social realism and idealism flourished side by side during America's depression years.
Exhibition images
Works of art
Russell Lee
1940
Walker Evans
1936
Grant Wood, Associated American Artists, George Charles Miller
1939
Jack Delano
1941
Marion Post Wolcott
circa 1938
Donald Freeman
circa 1939
Donald Freeman
circa 1939
Berenice Abbott
1936
Reginald Marsh
1932
Marion Post Wolcott
1940
Russell Lee
1940
Charles Frederick Ramus
1939
Rockwell Kent
1936
Gerald Kenneth Geerlings
1933
Martin Lewis, The Chicago Society of Etchers
1932
Louis Faurer
1947
John Vachon
1942
Thomas Hart Benton, Associated American Artists
1941
Louis Lozowick
1934
Berenice Abbott
1938
Weegee
1938
Jolan Gross Bettelheim
1937
Donald Freeman
1934
Ansel Adams
1944
Walker Evans
1936
Grant Wood, Associated American Artists, George Charles Miller
1939
Thomas Hart Benton, Associated American Artists
1938
John Steuart Curry, Associated American Artists
1944
Arthur Rothstein
1936
Arthur Rothstein
1936
Gerhard H. Bakker
1934
William Judson Dickerson
1934
Imogen Cunningham
1934
Edward Weston
1937
Mary Huntoon
1934
Asa Cheffetz
1935
Walker Evans
1936
John Steuart Curry, Associated American Artists
1942
Weegee
1940
Reginald Marsh
circa 1938–1940
William LeRoy Flint
1937
Russell Lee
1940
Thomas Hart Benton
1939
Arthur Rothstein
1936
Grant Wood, Associated American Artists, George Charles Miller
1937
Georges Schreiber, Associated American Artists
1942
Paul Cadmus
1935
Thomas Hart Benton, Associated American Artists
1938
Marguerite Redman Dorgeloh
circa 1939
Luigi Lucioni
1934
Berenice Abbott
1935
Albert Abramovitz
1938
John Steuart Curry, Associated American Artists
1938