April 17, 2024
1982 AMERICAN SCENE PAINTINGS Regionalism WPA Depression Art BENTON CADMUS WOOD
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Essential, extensively illustrated reference onAmerican regionalist artNancy Heller and Virginia Williams: Painters of the American Scene. New York: Galahad Books, 1982. Black cloth with pictorial jacket, 11.5 x 10.25 in., 208 pages, illustrated throughout. A few neat library stamps and labels, and some very mild rubbing to jacket, otherwise clean, tight, and near fine.A lavishly illustrated reference on American art of the WPA/Depression era. From the jacket: "During the twenties, thirties, and forties, Regionalism was the last great flash of figurative painting before abstract art swept the field. The Regionalist painters documented the America they new best--from the barren, dusty Southwest to the crisp, tree-lined order of New England; from the folklore and customs of rural America to shabby urban panoramas. They painted the myths of American life and captured as well the truths of a way of life that was rapidly changing.... In addition to painting rural America, the Regionalists painted a brand-new region in America: the big city.... Against a backdrop of a growing social consciousness, these artists created an emotional, realistic art that people could understand and with which they could identify...."The artists whose works are pictured and discussed include Thomas Hart Benton, Isabel Bishop, Arnold Blanch, Aaron Bohrod, Louis
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