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2/25/2012 - 5/13/2012
Organizing institution: Weatherspoon Art Museum
Artists of all periods have used narrative imagery to teach, enlighten, and/or inspire viewers. Derived in the past from literature, Biblical scripture, mythology, or history, narrative art created during the 1930s continued to record these themes as well as the dramatic economic, social, and political changes that were taking place across the nation. Artists who advocated both representational and abstract styles attempted to capture the spirit of their agea time marked by the bleak reality of the Great Depression as well as the uplifting optimism linked with the machine age and its promise of progress. While works by Social Realist and Regionalist artists-the art market's dominant styles at the time- abound, images by other artists whose concerns were more psychologically penetrating are also included.
The exhibition is organized by Elaine D. Gustafson, Curator of Collections.
Related programs:
Lecture: The Lusty Modern Matron -Sat Mar 31 @ 2pm
Noon @ the 'Spoon - Tue Apr 10 @ 12pm
Organizing institution: Weatherspoon Art Museum
This Exhibition includes the following Venues:
- Weatherspoon Art Museum, UNC Greensboro 2/25/2012 - 5/13/2012
Artists of all periods have used narrative imagery to teach, enlighten, and/or inspire viewers. Derived in the past from literature, Biblical scripture, mythology, or history, narrative art created during the 1930s continued to record these themes as well as the dramatic economic, social, and political changes that were taking place across the nation. Artists who advocated both representational and abstract styles attempted to capture the spirit of their agea time marked by the bleak reality of the Great Depression as well as the uplifting optimism linked with the machine age and its promise of progress. While works by Social Realist and Regionalist artists-the art market's dominant styles at the time- abound, images by other artists whose concerns were more psychologically penetrating are also included.
The exhibition is organized by Elaine D. Gustafson, Curator of Collections.
Related programs:
Lecture: The Lusty Modern Matron -Sat Mar 31 @ 2pm
Noon @ the 'Spoon - Tue Apr 10 @ 12pm
Exhibition Objects (32)
Artists (27)
- Arnold Blanch (1896 - 1968)
- Cecil Bell (1907 - 1970)
- Charles Locke (Cincinnati, OH, 1899 - 1983)
- Don Freeman (1908 - 1978)
- Edmund Lewandowski (Milwaukee, WI, 1914 - 1998, Rock Hill, SC)
- Edward Laning (Petersburg, IL, 1906 - 1981)
- Emil Ganso (Halberstadt, Germany, 1895 - 1941, Iowa City, IA)
- Ernest Fiene (Eberfeld, Germany, 1894 - 1965, Paris, France)
- George Grosz (Berlin, Germany, 1893 - 1959, Berlin, Germany)
- Gregory Ivy (Clarksburg, MO, 1904 - 1985)
- Guy Pène du Bois (Brooklyn, NY, 1884 - 1958, Boston, MA)
- Guy Wiggins (1883 - 1962)
- Gwyneth King (1908 - 1985)
- Harry Gottlieb (1895 - 1992)
- Harry Sternberg (New York, NY, 1904 - 2001, New York, NY)
- Isabel Bishop (Cincinnati, OH, 1902 - 1988, Bronx, NY)
- John Steuart Curry (Dunavant, KS, 1897 - 1946, Madison, WI)
- Kenneth Hayes Miller (Oneida, NY, 1876 - 1952)
- Konrad Cramer (Wurzburg, Germany, 1888 - 1963, Woodstock, NY)
- Kyra Markham (1891 - 1967)
- Lawrence Beall Smith (1909 - 1995)
- Miklos Suba (Szatmar, Hungary, 1880 - 1944)
- Paul Cadmus (New York, NY, 1904 - 1999, Weston, CT)
- Reginald Marsh (Paris, France, 1898 - 1954, Dorset, VT)
- Thomas Hart Benton (Neosho, MO, 1889 - 1975, Kansas City, MO)
- Yasuo Kuniyoshi (Okayama, Japan, 1889 – 1953, Woodstock, NY)
- Yun Gee ((near) Canton, China, 1906 - 1963, New York, NY)