Large softcover 154 page with discussion of over 50 paintings from the depression era.

1934: A New Deal for Artists[ 1934: A NEW DEAL FOR ARTISTS ] by Wagner, Ann Prentice (Author) Aug-01-09[ Hardcover ]

Wagner, Ann Prentice

Smithsonian American Art Museum

Organized by the University of Maryland Art Gallery in collaboration with the Arkansas Arts Center, Herman Maril: The Strong Forms of Our Experience follows the career of painter and former University of Maryland art professor Herman Maril (1908-1986) from his emergence as a precocious cubist in Baltimore in the 1920s, through the maturation of his modern style in the 1940s, 50s, and 60s, and into his mature modernism of the 1970s and 80s. This exhibition will focus exclusively on his works on paper. Maril came to national prominence in the 1930s through the Public Works of Art Project (PWAP) and later New Deal projects. Furthermore, Maril made his New York debut in 1934 as part of a PWAP exhibition at the Museum of Modern Art. In these same years modernist collector and museum founder Duncan Phillips began acquiring and promoting Maril's art and also earned the respect of prominent artists of the time, including his friends Milton Avery and Mark Rothko.

Herman Maril The Strong Forms of Our Experience

University of Maryland Art Gallery

John Marin was a major figure among the cutting-edge circle of American modernist artists who showed his work in Alfred Stieglitz’s New York galleries from 1909 until 1950. A new collection of the artist’s work at the Arkansas Arts Center, given by Marin’s daughter-in-law, forms the basis of this first book of essays and images to concentrate on Marin’s drawings in the context of Marin’s life, his watercolors, and his etchings.
We follow Marin to his most famous subject matter: New York City and the coast of Maine. Foundational drawings and an unfinished watercolor of the towering Woolworth Building, still under construction when they were made in 1912, begin the story of a renowned group of watercolors first exhibited in 1913 at Alfred Stieglitz’s 291 Gallery and then at the ground-breaking 1913 Armory Show. Other images take us to lesser-known locales, such as the Ramapo Mountains in New York and New Jersey where Marin often painted when he couldn’t get to Maine. More obscure aspects of the artist’s career explored in this collection include portraits of friends and family, charming drawings of animals, and circus scenes.
Becoming John Marin invites readers to look over this important artist’s shoulder as he created and honed the sketches he would interpret into completed watercolors and etchings, illustrating the evolution of his style and methods as he transformed from intuitive draftsman to innovative modernist watercolorist and etcher.

Becoming John Marin: Modernist at Work

Arts & Photography

History & Criticism

University of Arkansas Press

Celebrates the 75th anniversary of the U.S. Public Works of Art Program, created in 1934 against the backdrop of the Great Depression. The 55 paintings in this volume are a lasting visual record of America at a specific moment in time; a response to an economic situation that is all too familiar

1934: A New Deal for Artists

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1934: A New Deal for Artists[ 1934: A NEW DEAL FOR ARTISTS ] by Wagner, Ann Prentice (Author) Aug-01-09[ Hardcover ]

Herman Maril The Strong Forms of Our Experience

Becoming John Marin: Modernist at Work

1934: A New Deal for Artists