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American Art Before and After World War
II
Melissa Kirkland
ARTS/125
August 10, 2015
DOROTHEA LANGE
• American photographer.
• From 1914 to 1917 she attended the New York
Training School for Teachers and there decided to become a photographer, partly influenced by visits to the photographer Arnold
Genthe.
• From 1917 to 1918 she attended a photography course run by Clarence H.
White at Columbia
University, NY.
“Migrant
“White Angel Breadline”
Mother”
WALKER EVANS
• American Photographer and writer.
• He grew up in Kenilworth, a suburb of Chicago, but moved to New York with his mother after his parents separated.
• Primarily interested in literature, he sat in on lectures at the Sorbonne in
Paris (1926–7), visited museums and bookshops, and thought of becoming a writer. • In 1928 he acquired a camera and, out of frustration over his inability to find work and develop a literary means of
Lucille Burroughs, daughter of a cotton sharecropper. Hale County,
Alabama.
Alabama Cotton Tenant Farmer
Family
ARTHUR ROTHSTEIN
• American Photographer
• Recognized as one of
America’s premier photojournalists. • He was 21 years old, the son of Jewish immigrants, born and raised in New
York City.
• Fresh from Columbia
University, Rothstein had been the first photographer hired by Roy Stryker, his former professor, at the
Resettlement
Administration, a New Deal agency that, from 1935 to
1936, relocated struggling families to communities planned by the federal
Fleeing a Dust Storm (1936)
Bill Wilson Irwinville Farms Project
Jackson Pollock
• Abstract Expressionists Painter
• American Painter
• Left home in 1922/New York in
1930.
• He studied at the Art Students
League with the Regionalist mural painter Thomas Hart
Benton.
• He lived in poverty from 1933 until 1935, when he worked as a mural assistant and later easel painter on the Works Progress
Administration’s Federal Art
Project (WPA/FAP).
• In 1936 he joined David Alfaro
Siqueiros’s Experimental
Workshop and
II
Melissa Kirkland
ARTS/125
August 10, 2015
DOROTHEA LANGE
• American photographer.
• From 1914 to 1917 she attended the New York
Training School for Teachers and there decided to become a photographer, partly influenced by visits to the photographer Arnold
Genthe.
• From 1917 to 1918 she attended a photography course run by Clarence H.
White at Columbia
University, NY.
“Migrant
“White Angel Breadline”
Mother”
WALKER EVANS
• American Photographer and writer.
• He grew up in Kenilworth, a suburb of Chicago, but moved to New York with his mother after his parents separated.
• Primarily interested in literature, he sat in on lectures at the Sorbonne in
Paris (1926–7), visited museums and bookshops, and thought of becoming a writer. • In 1928 he acquired a camera and, out of frustration over his inability to find work and develop a literary means of
Lucille Burroughs, daughter of a cotton sharecropper. Hale County,
Alabama.
Alabama Cotton Tenant Farmer
Family
ARTHUR ROTHSTEIN
• American Photographer
• Recognized as one of
America’s premier photojournalists. • He was 21 years old, the son of Jewish immigrants, born and raised in New
York City.
• Fresh from Columbia
University, Rothstein had been the first photographer hired by Roy Stryker, his former professor, at the
Resettlement
Administration, a New Deal agency that, from 1935 to
1936, relocated struggling families to communities planned by the federal
Fleeing a Dust Storm (1936)
Bill Wilson Irwinville Farms Project
Jackson Pollock
• Abstract Expressionists Painter
• American Painter
• Left home in 1922/New York in
1930.
• He studied at the Art Students
League with the Regionalist mural painter Thomas Hart
Benton.
• He lived in poverty from 1933 until 1935, when he worked as a mural assistant and later easel painter on the Works Progress
Administration’s Federal Art
Project (WPA/FAP).
• In 1936 he joined David Alfaro
Siqueiros’s Experimental
Workshop and