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Jun 13 '12
Brian Szott, head of collections at the Minnesota Historical Society, shows paintings from the Public Works of Art Project onThursday in the History Center archives, photo by Jared Martin “These trends seen in Minnesota art — the reverence for the local and familiar; the optimism toward home and work in the face of economic downturn; and the move toward bleaker subject matter and obscurity in the face of post-war modernism — are present in New Deal art from around the nation in ‘1934: A New Deal for Artists.’” -from “New Deal, new zeal” by Tony Wagner

Brian Szott, head of collections at the Minnesota Historical Society, shows paintings from the Public Works of Art Project onThursday in the History Center archives, photo by Jared Martin


“These trends seen in Minnesota art — the reverence for the local and familiar; the optimism toward home and work in the face of economic downturn; and the move toward bleaker subject matter and obscurity in the face of post-war modernism — are present in New Deal art from around the nation in ‘1934: A New Deal for Artists.’”


-from “New Deal, new zeal” by Tony Wagner

Tags: The Great Depression Minnesota Art