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Depression Era Art
1929-1939
Key Ideas
• Response to the Great Depression
• Recognizes the plight of the destitute
• Social concerns shown
Dorothea Lange American
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Documentary photography of
migrant workers in California
(deserted camp)
Migrant Mother. 1935. Photograph.
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Mother as symbol of despair, anxiety,
strength and determination
Poverty shown by material
Mother’s face framed by turned children
Edward Hopper, American
Nighthawks. 1942. Oil on canvas.
•Simple composition
•Empty streets – loneliness of city life
•No interaction
•Clear forms
Jacob Lawrence, American
Migration of the Negro #38
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Collective African-American experience
Flat, simple shapes
One of a series of 60 paintings depicting
the migration of African-Americans from
the rural South to the urban North
Part of the Harlem Renaissance
Grant Wood, American
American Gothic. 1930. oil on
beaverboard.
• Regionalist painter focused on rural Iowa
subjects
• Represents a father and daughter
• Expression of hostility/disapproval
• May represent the hardiness of the
American (maybe not!)