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Exhibition

The American Scene: Graphics of the 1930s and 1940s

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 (1903–1986), Serving Barbecue at Pie Town Fair, New Mexico

Walker Evans (1903–1975), Farmer's Kitchen, Hale County, Alabama

Russell Lee (1903–1986), Mexican beet worker washing up after a day's work near East Grand Forks, Minnesota

George Charles Miller (1894–1965); Grant Wood (1891–1942); Associated American Artists (active 1934–2000), In the Spring

Jack Delano (1914–1997), The Greensboro Lumber Co., Greensboro, Georgia

Marion Post Wolcott (1910–1990), Negro Sharecropper Family Working in Cotton Field, Georgia

Donald Freeman (1908–1978), Garment District

Donald Freeman (1908–1978), Added Attraction

Berenice Abbott (1898–1991), Ninth Ave. Line and Corner of Radio Row, Cortlandt Street, New York

Reginald Marsh (1898–1954), Bread Line-No One Has Starved

Marion Post Wolcott (1910–1990), Baptism of members of Primitive Baptist Church in Triplett Creek, Rowan County, near Morehead, Kentucky

Russell Lee (1903–1986), Eating Pie at Pie Supper in Muskogee County, Oklahoma

Charles Frederick Ramus (1902–1979), Scrap for War

Rockwell Kent (1882–1971), And Now Where?

Gerald Kenneth Geerlings (1897–1998), Electrical Building at Night

Martin Lewis (1881–1962); The Chicago Society of Etchers (founded 1910), Night in New York

Louis Faurer (1916–2001), New York, N.Y.

John Vachon (1914–1975), Texhoma, Texas. Wheat Storage in the Northern Panhandle

Thomas Hart Benton (1889–1975); Associated American Artists (active 1934–2000), Threshing

Louis Lozowick (1892–1973), 1st Avenue Market

Berenice Abbott (1898–1991), Hester Street Scene, New York

Weegee (1899–1968), Asleep on Fire Escape During Heat Spell

Jolan Gross Bettelheim (1900–1972), Employment Office

Donald Freeman (1908–1978), Election Night, Times Square

Ansel Adams (1902–1984), Winter Sunrise, The Sierra Nevada from Lone Pine, California

Walker Evans (1903–1975), Porch of a Negro's House, Tupelo, Mississippi

George Charles Miller (1894–1965); Grant Wood (1891–1942); Associated American Artists (active 1934–2000), Fertility

Thomas Hart Benton (1889–1975); Associated American Artists (active 1934–2000), Rainy Day

John Steuart Curry (1897–1946); Associated American Artists (active 1934–2000), Sanctuary (large version)

Arthur Rothstein (1915–1985), Skull, Badlands, South Dakota

Arthur Rothstein (1915–1985), Vernon Evans (with his family) of Lemmon, South Dakota, near Missoula, Montana on Highway 10. Leaving grasshopper-ridden and drought-stricken area for a new start in Oregon or Washington.

Gerhard H. Bakker (1906–1988), Rehabilitated Lime Kiln

William Judson Dickerson (1904–1972), Industrial Wichita #1

Imogen Cunningham (1883–1976), Fagoel Ventilators

Edward Weston (1886–1958), Windmill, Taos

Mary Huntoon (1896–1970), Kansas Harvest

Asa Cheffetz (1896–1965), Clouds over Enfield (Connecticut)

Walker Evans (1903–1975), Sharecropper's Wife, Hale County, Alabama

John Steuart Curry (1897–1946); Associated American Artists (active 1934–2000), Our Good Earth

Weegee (1899–1968), Coney Island Beach, 4 p.m., July 21, 1940

Reginald Marsh (1898–1954), untitled (beach scene)

William LeRoy Flint (1909–1991), Fun on the Beach

Russell Lee (1903–1986), School Children Singing, Pie Town, New Mexico

Thomas Hart Benton (1889–1975), Departure of the Joads

Arthur Rothstein (1915–1985), Dust Storm, Cimarron County, Oklahoma

George Charles Miller (1894–1965); Grant Wood (1891–1942); Associated American Artists (active 1934–2000), Seed Time and Harvest

Georges Schreiber (1904–1977); Associated American Artists (active 1934–2000), The Plowman's Refreshment

Paul Cadmus (1904–1999), Horseplay

Thomas Hart Benton (1889–1975); Associated American Artists (active 1934–2000), Edge of Town

Marguerite Redman Dorgeloh (1890–1944), The Mart

Luigi Lucioni (1900–1988), Elms and Hill

Berenice Abbott (1898–1991), Murray Hill Hotel, Park Avenue and 41st Street

Albert Abramovitz (1879–1963), Niagara Falls

John Steuart Curry (1897–1946); Associated American Artists (active 1934–2000), Prize Stallions