“American Scenes: Art from the Depression Era in the High Museum Collection”
The Atlanta High Museum is currently presenting art created in the midst of financial uncertainty and collapse (the 1930’s – not 2008): “the diversity of visual expression generated by the turmoil of the Depression. The stylized images of Regionalist artists such as Thomas Hart Benton, John Steuart Curry and Grant Wood, for example, came to symbolize the heroism and optimism of the American everyman in the face of disheartening devastation.”
High Museum of Art * Atlanta until January 10, 2010
1280 Peachtree Street, N.E.
Atlanta, GA
(Image: “John Brown”, 1938, John Steuart Curry, Lithograph on paper)
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