VISUAL AND LITERARY ARTIFACTS FROM THE WOLFSONIAN LIBRARY’S GREAT DEPRESSION AND NEW DEAL COLLECTIONS
• September 10, 2014 • 1 CommentPosted in 1930s, AAA, American left artists, Artists, Blue eagle, book art, CCC, Christopher DeNoon, Civilian Conservation Corps, collectors, Communism, Communist Party of the United States, Communist Party of the United States of America, Communists, displays, donations, exhibitions, FAP, FDR, Federal One, Federal Theatre Project (U.S.), FIU students, Florida International University, Florida International University students, FTP, gifts, graphic arts, graphic designers, Great Depression, Hugo Gellert (1892-1985), leftist artists, library donors, Mitchell Wolfson Jr., museums, New Deal, New Deal (1933-1939), New Deal era, NRA, persuasive arts, photography, political art, propaganda arts, rare books and special collections library, silk screen, The Wolfsonian-FIU library, Wolfsonian library, Wolfsonian library collection, Wolfsonian museum library, Wolfsonian staff, Wolfsonian-FIU library, women, WPA
Tags: "Every Man a King" (song), "forgotten man", Agricultural Adjustment Administration (AAA), Alfred Landon, Archibald MacLeish’s Land of the Free (1938), Breadlines, Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC), Clara Helena Palacio Luca, Communist Party of the United States (CPUSA), Comrade Gulliver: an illustrated account of travel into that strange country the United States of America (1935), Democrats, drought, Dust Bowl, Farm Security Administration (FSA), Federal Arts Project, Federal Theatre Project (FTP), Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse, Francis Xavier Luca, General Services Administration (GSA), Huey Long (1893-1935), Julie Redwine, Karl Marx Capital in Pictures (1933), Kathy Erickson, mural studies, My First Days in the White House / by Huey Long (1935), National Recovery Administration (NRA), National Retrogression Act (NRA), Old King Dole, Peter Clericuzio, political campaign literature, presidential contenders, Professor Carmela McIntire, Republicans, Resettlement Administration (RA), Share the Wealth, Sharecroppers, shovel-leaners, shovels, Tenant farmers, The Christopher DeNoon Collection for the Study of New Deal Culture, Work Projects Administration (WPA), Works Progress Administration (WPA)
ART AND PROPAGANDA
• April 1, 2011 • Leave a CommentPosted in Communist Party of the United States of America, Communists, Hugo Gellert (1892-1985), persuasive arts, political art, postcards, propaganda, propaganda arts, propaganda posters, Wolfsonian library, Wolfsonian library collection, Wolfsonian museum library, World War I, World War II, WWI, WWII
Tags: caricatures, Cartoonists, CPUSA, Dance of Death, Dante Coscia (1912-?), Fascist artists, Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse, G. A. Stevens, Gino Boccasile (1901-1952), Louis Raemaekers (1869-1956), Mother Goose, Professor Paula Harper, University of Miami students, war refugees
