Depression-era photography has become strongly associated with a documentary style, but “Reality Makes Them Dream” shows other facets of life at the time, as in Marion Post Wolcott’s “Center of town, ...

Grant Wood’s “Bibbed Overalls Cupboard Door,” created about 1925, featured denim glued to painted wood. This piece sparked the museum’s summer exhibition “Overalls: Grant Wood’s Depictions of Denim,” ...

To their detriment, working-class men were often eroticized in American art of the 1930s that dealt with themes of work and workers, writes Erika Doss, a professor of art history at the University of ...

In the We the People series, The Spokesman-Review examines a question from the Naturalization Test immigrants must pass to become United States citizens. Today’s question: What was the Great ...

LANCASTER — The hardships and resilience experienced with striking similarity by Americans during two traumatic periods of history are on display in a photographic exhibit at the Decorative Arts ...

Charles Sheeler, “On a Connecticut Theme” (1958), oil on canvas, 19 1/8 x 29 1/8 inches (image courtesy the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, Lawrence H ...

Part 1. Modernism on the margins. Erotic mythmaking and depression politics: Alfred Stieglitz and Dorothy Norman -- Katherine S. Dreier's conflicting passions: Modernism and German nationalism -- Part ...

More than any other institution in the city, the University of Denver should be credited with establishing and nurturing contemporary art in the early to mid-twentieth century. But despite the ...

GRATITUDE: “Prayer is an attitude. Thanksgiving is a mood," The Asheville Citizen wrote in a Nov. 27, 1930, editorial reflecting on the season of gratitude at the onset of the Great Depression. Photo ...

‘Reality Makes Them Dream’ features over 100 prints, periodicals and photo books from the 1930s that go beyond the documentary-style images we’ve come to expect from the era. Marion Post Wolcott, ...

For a curator in search of a compelling exhibition, there’s little better than a fresh, revealing storyline, a cast of artists both well-known and not, and art to substantiate the narrative. That’s ...