Modern Art Unit 2

Ben Shahn

The Passion of Sacco & Vanzetti

1930

Phillip Evergood

American Tragedy

1935

Diego Rivera

Detroit Industry (North Wall) Mural

1935

Man, Controller of the Universe mural

1935

Diego Rivera

Jacob Lawrence

The Migration Series,

Panel No. 1,

1940

(“During World War I there was a Great Migration…”

Jacob Lawrence

1940

The Migration Series, Panel No. 10

“They were very poor”

Jacob Lawrence

The Migration Series, Panel No. 57

1940

The Female worker was also one of the last groups to leave the South

The Great Depression

economic crash in 1929 led to funding of artists

social realists

artists conveying disenchantment with capitalism

The great migration

African American individuals moving north from south for work

Cross with red sky

1930

Georgia o keeffe

Georgia o keeffe

cow skull red white blue

1930

Awa Tsireh

1930

Kosher and Rainbow

Chiura Obata

evening glow at mono lake

1930

american gothic

grant wood

1930

America today mural series

1930

Thomas hart benton

the arts of life in america

1930

Thomas hart benton

FSA/ Farm security Admin

bring support to government assistance

bud fields and his family

1935

walker Evans

American Gothic

Gordon Parks

1940

Migrant Mother

Dorthea lange

1940

Grandfather and grandchildren

Dorthea lange

1940

T

Three boys behind barbed wire

Toyo Miyatake

1940

OWI office of war information

hires photographers to document internment in a positive light

Harvest

Louise Ronnebeck

1940

Amistad Murals

Hale Woodruff

1940

Buffalo Dance

Velino Shije Herrera

1940

Nighthawks

Edward hopper

1940

office at night

Edward hopper

1940

stuart davis

swing landscape

1940

snake and the cross

Alexander calder

1940

automatism

stream of conciousness writing

Untitled

Alexander calder

1940

Isamu noguchi

rememberance 1945

Isamu noguchi

kouros

1945

The water of the flowery mill

1945

arshile Gorky

biomorphic abstract realism

organic flowing curvalinear forms

military industrial complex

policy and economic relationship between the government, the military and industry

mccarthyism and the redscare

investigation into communism

guardians of the secret

1945

Jackson pollock

carl jung

collective unconsciousness

collective unconsciousness

shared consciousness in humankind

full fathom five

1945

Jackson pollock

Number 1 Lavender mist

Jackson pollock

1950

Joan mitchell

the lake

1955

woman 1

William de kooning

1950

onememnt 1

1950

barnett newman

mark rothko

number 15

1950

barnett newman

vir heroicas sublimis

1950

mark rothko

untitled black on grey

1970

norman lewis

city night

1949

ritual

1960

norman lewisly

Clifford still

1946- h indian red and black

franz Kline

cardinal

1950

composition

1950

lee krasner

lee krasner

city verticals

1950

gaea

lee krasner

1965

Number 1

Bradley walker Tomlin

1950

George morrison

aureate vertical

1955

mountains and sea

Helen frankenthaler

1950

the bay

1960

Helen frankenthaler

Robert Rauschenberg

bed 1955

Robert Rauschenberg

odalisk

1955

Robert Rauschenberg

canyon 1960

jasper johns

flag 1955

target with plaster cast

1955

jasper johns

louise nevelson

sky cathedral

1960

Claes Oldenburg the store

1960

Claes oldenburg

soft hamburger 1960

Claes Oldenburg

1975 clothespin