Great Depression art gallery

[Midnight Palace]

I thought you guys might enjoy this....

http://www.english.uiuc.edu/maps/depression/artgallery.htm

 

[Fletch]

Good work here, altho the nonpolitical artwork seems included as a kind of "token" gesture. Maybe the best one could expect from an English department.

 

[Quigley Brown]

Funny that this topic would come up... A few days ago I went down to DC to visit a friend (photographer for the Dept. of Justice). Quite hidden from the public are scores of depression-era murals through-out the entire building that was built in the early 30s. There's lots of art deco design everywhere, also. It's too bad so few people can see these.

Sorry I got in the way of this one:

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I think this depicts laws to end child labor:

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[Fletch]

Is it present day security concerns that make the murals innaccessible?
Or were they originally done in out-of-the-way places to mollify conservative tastes?

 

[Quigley Brown]

The building is basically all offices. There's no museum inside for tourists. I suppose at one time anyone could just walk in and look around. Since the Attorney General works out of this building security is now pretty tight. Having a friend on the 'inside' made it pretty easy to get in and wander about (the AG's office was the only room off limits).

 

[Maj.Nick Danger]

Awesome,...

...always loved those dramatic struggling workers by Thomas Hart Benton. :eusa_clap

 

[BegintheBeguine]

Thanks for sharing. Alice Neel, Investigation Of Property At The Russell Sage Foundation (1934) brought quite the tear to my eye.