Social Realism - Gallery

Gallery

  • Thomas Hart Benton, People of Chilmark, 1920, Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington, DC.

  • John Augustus Walker, City Hall Murals, 1936, Mobile, Alabama, (now displayed in the Museum of Mobile)

  • Walker Evans, Floyd Burroughs, Alabama cotton Sharecropper, Hale County, Alabama, c. 1935-1936, photograph

  • Walker Evans, Allie Mae Burroughs, Wife of a Cotton Sharecropper, Hale County, Alabama, c. 1935-1936, photograph

  • Arthur Rothstein, A Farmer and His Two Sons During a Dust Storm, Cimarron County, Oklahoma, 1936, photograph considered as an icon of the Dust Bowl

  • John Steuart Curry, Tragic Prelude, 1938-1940, Kansas State Capitol, Topeka, Kansas

  • Thomas Hart Benton, Cut the Line, 1944, depicting the launch of a U.S. Navy Tank Landing Ship

  • Ben Shahn, Register to Vote, Congress of Industrial Organizations (CIO) poster, 1946

  • Santiago Martinez Delgado, Mural for the 1933 Chicago International Fair.

  • José Orozco, detail of mural Omnisciencia, 1925, Mexican Social Realist Mural Movement

  • Diego Rivera, Recreation of Man at the Crossroads (renamed Man, Controller of the Universe), originally created in 1934, Mexican muralism movement

  • David Alfaro Siqueiros, Unfinished Mural, c. 1940s, in Escuela de Bellas Artes, (School of Fine Arts), a cultural center in San Miguel de Allende, Mexico.

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    “It doesn’t matter that your painting is small. Kopecks are also small, but when a lot are put together they make a ruble. Each painting displayed in a gallery and each good book that makes it into a library, no matter how small they may be, serves a great cause: accretion of the national wealth.”
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