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Social Realism | DPLA
Sep 19, 2025 · Social realism was an art movement, associated with the era of the Great Depression in the US (roughly the 1930s), that depicted the everyday realities of life. Social …
Visual Art During the Harlem Renaissance | DPLA
Sep 3, 2025 · Coinciding with the Great Migration by African-Americans from the South to Northern cities, the term “Harlem Renaissance” is used to describe the thriving art, music, and …
The Bermuda Group (Dean Berkeley and His Entourage)
Berkeley's friend John Wainwright commissioned a portrait of the members of the expedition from John Smibert, a minor Scottish painter whom Berkeley had invited to teach art in the new college.
Blackface Minstrelsy in Modern America | DPLA
Blackface minstrelsy was a popular nineteenth-to-early-twentieth-century American musical and theatrical art form. Although the genre began during slavery, the primary sources in this set …
The Hudson River School | DPLA
Oct 19, 2025 · The Digital Public Library of America brings together the riches of America’s libraries, archives, and museums, and makes them freely available to the world.
Pop Art in the US | DPLA - Digital Public Library of America
Best known for Andy Warhol’s bright images of soup cans and celebrities, pop art got its name from its “popular” subject matter and slick graphic look, which mimicked advertising of the time.
Midsummer Night in Harlem, a 1938 painting by Palmer Hayden.
A 1939 photograph taken at the Harlem Art Center by Berenice Abbott. Excerpt from an oral history interview with painter Archibald Motley, 1978. A handwritten list of pictures submitted to …
Hook Mountain, Near Nyack, on the Hudson, an 1866 oil painting …
Whittredge traveled across the US as a landscape painter. An excerpt from a 2002 interview with a Minnesota Institute of Art curator about an exhibition of nineteenth-century landscape artists. …
Oil Painting by Ozark Artist Carl E. Perry | DPLA
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