Exhibition
Art Front
Prints and Politics in the United States, 1929-1945
When
Opens July 2027
Where
Main Building, Morgan, Korman, and Field Galleries 150-155
About
Artists in the 1930s confronted a world on fire. When the United States economy went into freefall on “Black Tuesday,” October 29, 1929, shockwaves of financial panic radiated as banks failed, factories shuttered, and workers were fired en masse. "Art Front: Prints and Politics in the United States, 1929 – 1945" spotlights a generation of U.S. artists forged in the crucibles of the Great Depression, Roosevelt’s New Deal, and the threat of fascism. Tracing how these pressures pushed artists out of the studio and into the streets as part of organized struggle, the exhibition uncovers the power and potential of printmaking for responding to the unprecedented crises of the moment.
Curators
John Murphy, Philip and Lynn Straus Curator of Prints and Drawings,
Laurel Garber, the Park Family Associate Curator of Prints and Drawings
With support from Louis Marchesano, Senior Curator for Special Projects , and Natascha Kirchner, Curator for the Kollwitz Museum Köln. Catia Colagioia, Exhibition Assistant, and Em Dombrovskaya, Suzanne Andrée Curatorial Fellow, and Frances Lehman Loeb Art Center, Vassar College.