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Crystal Bridges Announces Tiffany & Co. Exhibition
Crystal Bridges Announces New Tiffany & Co. Exhibition Crystal Bridges and Tif…
#France #FR #Europe #EU #Tiffany&Co. #Americanart #americanartwork #americanimagination #Artexhibitions #bentonville #Bentonvilleevents #brooch #co.exhibition #CrystalBridges #Flowers #gemstones #georgepauldingfarnham #jewelry #lvmh #museums #Nature #NatureAdorned #necklace #NorthwestArkansas #oct. #rock #theartistry #Tiffany
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Martha Rosler (b.1943)
Martha Rosler (b.1943) is an American artist. She is a conceptual artist who works in photography and photo text, video, installation, sculpture, site-specific and performance, as well as writing about art and culture. via W #PalianSHOW -
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...but Nan Lurie's 1937 lithograph "Technological Improvements" offers a more critical understanding of industry, race, and place in the USA.
"New Deal Art" explains how the administration of the Federal Art Project Graphic Arts Division offered artists like Lurie a degree of freedom in exploiting the radical possibilities of the print as a medium.
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I appreciated the book providing not just a survey of the various federal agencies involved with art, but also an exploration of how these agencies' diverse priorities, institutional constraints, and convictions of their individual administrators could produce bodies of art more heterogeneous than that commonly imagined under the inaccurate label of "WPA art" .
For example, Harry Sternberg's 1939 "The Family, Industry, and Agriculture", a Section of Fine Arts sponsored US Post Office mural, might strike the viewer as typical New Deal Americana....
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I was sitting in an Austin Starbucks last weekend, absorbed in the recently published "New Deal Art: Culture and Crisis in the Great Depression" by John P. Murphy.
"Hello." A smiling man was standing by my table. "I'm the author of the book you're reading."
What a delightful coincidence! We sat together and chatted for a while about the book, the thirties, and the exhibition of American modernist art at the UT Blanton Museum where he was going to be giving a talk.
Even though I was already planning to post a few thoughts on the book, the chance meeting has provided me with additional impetus.
#NewDealArt #AmericanArt #NewDeal #ArtHistory #JohnPMurphy #Coincidence #USHistory #20thCenturyArt #1930s #ChanceMeeting
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"View of Alpine" -- Moya del Pino -- oil on masonite -- 1940.
A US Post Office mural created for Alpine, TX, by Jose Moya del Pino ( 1891- 1969), a Spanish born artist who worked for most of his life in Bay area California.
#Art #Painting #JoseMoyadelPino #USArt #AmericanArt #NewDealArt #20thCenturyArt #PublicArt #PostOfficeMurals #Alpine #Texas #Masonite
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It’s Been Called the ‘Sistine Chapel of the New Deal.’ Don’t Destroy It.
The rare #murals in the Cohen Federal Building celebrate vital American values of dignity and community. Now they could meet the same fate as the White House’s East Wing. Gift article: https://www.nytimes.com/2026/02/05/arts/design/wilbur-cohen-building-murals-guston-shahn.html?unlocked_article_code=1.KFA.qFyn.wElOFv3eXH7I&smid=url-share
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The Wilbur J. Cohen Building in Washington, D.C.—previously the Social Security Building—is architecturally important and notably includes some of the most important New Deal–era murals.
https://www.archpaper.com/2025/11/gsa-wilbur-j-cohen-federal-building-art-and-architecture-saving/
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The Spanish Steps, Rome, 1897 #americanart #hassam https://www.wikiart.org/en/childe-hassam/the-spanish-steps-rome
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The Spanish Steps, Rome, 1897 #americanart #hassam https://www.wikiart.org/en/childe-hassam/the-spanish-steps-rome
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Sand Springs Butte, 1904 #americanart #hassam https://www.wikiart.org/en/childe-hassam/sand-springs-butte
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Sand Springs Butte, 1904 #americanart #hassam https://www.wikiart.org/en/childe-hassam/sand-springs-butte
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View of Broadway and Fifth Avenue, 1890 #hassam #americanart https://www.wikiart.org/en/childe-hassam/view-of-broadway-and-fifth-avenue-1
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View of Broadway and Fifth Avenue, 1890 #hassam #americanart https://www.wikiart.org/en/childe-hassam/view-of-broadway-and-fifth-avenue-1
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In Brittany Bay, 1887 #hassam #americanart https://www.wikiart.org/en/childe-hassam/in-brittany-bay
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In Brittany Bay, 1887 #hassam #americanart https://www.wikiart.org/en/childe-hassam/in-brittany-bay
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The Goldfish Window, 1916 #americanart #hassam https://www.wikiart.org/en/childe-hassam/the-goldfish-window
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The Goldfish Window, 1916 #americanart #hassam https://www.wikiart.org/en/childe-hassam/the-goldfish-window