ISBN9780300257335_f0301-01

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Description: Midwest, from America Today

TitleMidwest, from America Today

Creator nationality/cultureAmerican

Creator rolePainter

Creation date1930–1931

MaterialsEgg tempera with oil glazing over Permalba on a gesso ground on linen mounted to wood panels with a honeycomb interior

LocationMetropolitan Museum of Art, New York

https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/499559

Accession number2012.478e

SubjectsAgriculture in artPainting, American--20th centuryMural painting and decoration, American--20th centuryRegionalism (Art movement)

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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=48834

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

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