Great Depression

american art in 1930s

The Great Depression spanned the years 1929 to about 1939, a period of economic crisis in the United States and around the world. During this period new artistic movement will emerge and express the feelings that Americans feel

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Dorothea Lange Migrant Mother,Nipomo, California

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Untitled (Strike) Fox Trash

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Gas Edward Hoppers

Dorothea Lange Migrant Mother

For many, Lange's Migrant Mother, Nipomo, California is the single most recognizable image from the Great Depression, epitomizing the desperate circumstances many found themselves in during that period.In the image, thirty-two-year-old migrant farmworker Florence Owens Thompson and three of her children are depicted huddled together in a tent at a pea-pickers' camp in Nipomo, California. The fact that the photograph is in black and white adds a miserable character to this representation which was made to raise awareness about impoverished farmers t

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Dorothea Lange Migrant Mother,Nipomo, California

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Untitled (Strike) Fox Trash

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Gas Edward Hoppers

Untitled (strike)

This work by Thrash, a Black American, is a rare depiction of people of color organizing and participating in a labor strike in the thirties. The scarcity of such imagery is likely in part due to the frequent denial of union membership to workers of color. Thrash’s inclusion of the placard in support of the Scottsboro Boys demonstrates an interest in fighting both racial and labor discrimination, shared by many activists of the time

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Dorothea Lange Migrant Mother,Nipomo, California

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Untitled (Strike) Fox Trash

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Gas Edward Hoppers

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Gas

This is a painting by Edward Hoppers made in 1940.The painting represents a gas station. A man is standing there, the electric lighting of the fuel pumps creates a contrast with the darker lights of the falling night. These fuel pumps and electric lights oppose nature placed at the edge of the road This opposition represents the end of an era and the entry into an industrial air.

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