Depression Era Murals Of The Bay Area
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Author | : Nicholas A. Veronico, Gina F. Morello, Brett A. Casadonte, and Gilda Collins |
Publisher | : Arcadia Publishing |
Total Pages | : 96 |
Release | : 2014 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 146713144X |
The San Francisco Bay Area's art community was thriving until the Great Depression strangled commerce in the 1930s. Pres. Franklin D. Roosevelt's New Deal art programs brought relief to many talented but financially strapped artists. Their legacy, and that of the New Deal, adorns the walls and halls of many public spaces throughout the region. Murals cover the lobbies of the Coit Memorial Tower, the Beach Chalet, and the Aquatic Park Bathhouse (today's San Francisco Maritime Museum) and decorate many public schools and post offices. Today, almost all of this wonderful art can be viewed by the public, free of charge.
Author | : Nicholas A. Veronico and Betty S. Veronico |
Publisher | : Arcadia Publishing |
Total Pages | : 96 |
Release | : 2017 |
Genre | : Art |
ISBN | : 1467125741 |
The Great Depression was a terrible blow for the Bay Area's thriving art community. A few private art projects kept a small number of sculptors working, but for the majority, prospects of finding new commissions were grim. By the mid-1930s, Pres. Franklin D. Roosevelt's New Deal program had gathered steam, and assistance was provided to the nation's art community. Salvation came from the Works Progress Administration (WPA), which employed thousands of artists to produce sculpture for public venues. The Bay Area art community subsequently benefitted from the need to fill the then-forthcoming Golden Gate International Exposition (GGIE) with sculpture of all shapes and sizes. As bad as the Depression was, its legacy more than 80 years on is one of beauty. The Bay Area is dotted with sculpture from this era, the majority of it on public display. Depression-Era Sculpture of the Bay Area is a visual tour of this artistic bounty.
Author | : Nicholas A. Veronico |
Publisher | : Arcadia Publishing |
Total Pages | : 96 |
Release | : 2017-08-07 |
Genre | : Photography |
ISBN | : 1439661782 |
The Great Depression was a terrible blow for the Bay Area's thriving art community. A few private art projects kept a small number of sculptors working, but for the majority, prospects of finding new commissions were grim. By the mid-1930s, Pres. Franklin D. Roosevelt's New Deal program had gathered steam, and assistance was provided to the nation's art community. Salvation came from the Works Progress Administration (WPA), which employed thousands of artists to produce sculpture for public venues. The Bay Area art community subsequently benefitted from the need to fill the then-forthcoming Golden Gate International Exposition (GGIE) with sculpture of all shapes and sizes. As bad as the Depression was, its legacy more than 80 years on is one of beauty. The Bay Area is dotted with sculpture from this era, the majority of it on public display. Depression-Era Sculpture of the Bay Area is a visual tour of this artistic bounty.
Author | : Masha Zakheim |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 148 |
Release | : 1983 |
Genre | : Architecture |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Martha Raquel Pacheco-Rose |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 266 |
Release | : 2013 |
Genre | : Art objects |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Robert W. Cherny |
Publisher | : University of Illinois Press |
Total Pages | : 356 |
Release | : 2017-03-07 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 0252099249 |
Victor Arnautoff reigned as San Francisco's leading mural painter during the New Deal era. Yet that was only part of an astonishing life journey from Tsarist officer to leftist painter. Robert W. Cherny's masterful biography of Arnautoff braids the artist's work with his increasingly leftist politics and the tenor of his times. Delving into sources on Russian émigrés and San Francisco's arts communities, Cherny traces Arnautoff's life from refugee art student and assistant to Diego Rivera to prominence in the New Deal's art projects and a faculty position at Stanford University. As Arnautoff's politics moved left, he often incorporated working people and people of color into his treatment of the American past and present. In the 1950s, however, his participation in leftist organizations and a highly critical cartoon of Richard Nixon landed him before the House Un-American Activities Committee and led to calls for his dismissal from Stanford. Arnautoff eventually departed America, a refugee of another kind, now fleeing personal loss and the disintegration of the left-labor culture that had nurtured him, before resuming his artistic career in the Soviet Union that he had fought in his youth to destroy.
Author | : Anthony W. Lee |
Publisher | : Univ of California Press |
Total Pages | : 310 |
Release | : 1999-04-15 |
Genre | : Art |
ISBN | : 9780520219779 |
During the 1930s San Francisco's most ambitious public murals were painted by artists on the left. In this study, Anthony Lee shows how these painters, led by Diego Rivera, sought to transform murals into a vehicle for their rejection of the economic and political status quo and their support of labor and radical ideologies, including Communism. In addressing these subjects, the mural painters developed a new imagery, based on the activities of the city's laboring population - its efforts to organize, its protests, its strikes.
Author | : The Book Club of California |
Publisher | : Wentworth Press |
Total Pages | : 78 |
Release | : 2019-02-26 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780469859869 |
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Author | : Anthony W. Lee |
Publisher | : Univ of California Press |
Total Pages | : 292 |
Release | : 1999-04-15 |
Genre | : Art |
ISBN | : 0520219775 |
During the 1930s San Francisco's most ambitious public murals were painted by artists on the left. In this study, Anthony Lee shows how these painters, led by Diego Rivera, sought to transform murals into a vehicle for their rejection of the economic and political status quo and their support of labor and radical ideologies, including Communism. In addressing these subjects, the mural painters developed a new imagery, based on the activities of the city's laboring population - its efforts to organize, its protests, its strikes.
Author | : Tim Drescher |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 1998 |
Genre | : Mural painting and decoration |
ISBN | : 9781880654132 |
The expanded and revised third edition of a popular visual collection, San Francisco Bay Area Murals captures the mural movement in all its rich detail. These remarkably expressive works of street art are meticulously captured and reviewed by a longtime scholar and aficionado of murals.