1. Depression-Era Art

2. Thomas Hart Benton 1889-1975 Missouri artist advocate of “Regionalism” self-proclaimed “enemy of Modernism” felt that art should be socially relevant tried to capture “pioneer spirit” of American laborers and farmers

3. W.P.A. Murals “Independence and the Opening of the West”

4. “Parks, the Circus, the Klan, the Press” (Part of “Indiana” Mural Cycles (1932)

5. “The Arts of Life in America: Arts of the City” (1932)

6. “Cradling Wheat”(1938)

7. Dorothea Lange 1895-1965 devoted to photographing the dispossessed and downtrodden with intense compassion. often worked with sociologist Paul Taylor part of Farm Security Administration’s photo project

8. “Migrant Mother” (1936)

9. “Migrant family from Muskogee, Oklahoma”

10. “White Angel Breadline, San Francisco”(1936)

11. “American Gothic” by Grant Wood (1930)

12. Edward Hopper 1882-1967 American art should remain free of European influences paintings often depict scenes of urban isolation and are concerned with individual psychology

13. “New York Movie”(1939)

14. “Room in New York”(1932)