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Description: The Voice of the City of New York Interpreted

TitleThe Voice of the City of New York Interpreted

Creator nameStella, Joseph

Creator nationality/cultureAmerican

Creator rolePainter

Creation date1920–1922

Object typePainting

MaterialsOil and tempera on canvas; 5 panels

Dimensions88 1/2 x 54 in. (224.8 x 137.2 cm), each panel

LocationNewark Museum, New Jersey

Accession number37.288A-E

SubjectsNew York (N.Y.)Cities and towns in artPainting, AbstractSkyscrapers in art

StatusOther panels represent: The Port (The Harbor); The White Way I; The Skyscrapers (The Prow); The White Way II (Broadway); The Bridge (Brooklyn Bridge)

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7. Prosperity and Depression, 1918–1939

John Davis, Michael Leja

Art of the United States, 1750–2000: Primary Sources

In overview, the period from 1918 to 1939 presents a neat package. It is bracketed by world wars and bifurcated by the stock market crash of 1929, with an economic expansion during the 1920s on one side and the Great Depression of the 1930s on the other. On closer view, the story is less easily told.

Author

John Davis, Michael Leja

PublisherTerra Foundation for American Art

Related print edition pages: pp.294-343

https://doi.org/10.37862/aaeportal.00199.008

Stable URL: https://aaeportal.com/?id=-20032&redirecttoanchor=16965

Chapter subject tags:Artists' writingsUnited States--In artArts and societyModernism (Art)African American artists

Joseph Stella and the “Conjunction of WORLDS”

Ruth L. Bohan

The Société Anonyme: Modernism for America

In 1921 Richard Boix, a cartoonist for Vanity Fair and The Dial, produced a cartoon showing Katherine Dreier and members of the Société Anonyme on the occasion of the organization’s Symposium on the Psychology of Modern Art and Archipenko (see fig. 6 in Gross’s introductory essay in the present volume). The...

Author

Ruth L. Bohan

PublisherYale University Art Gallery

PublisherYale University Press

Related print edition pages: pp.17-31

https://doi.org/10.37862/aaeportal.00159.005

Stable URL: https://aaeportal.com/?id=-15470&redirecttoanchor=16965

Chapter subject tags:Stella, Joseph, 1877-1946Duchamp, Marcel, 1887-1968Art, ModernArt--Societies, etcDreier, Katherine Sophie, 1877-1952

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