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SUMMARY:Talk And Book SigningBy John P. MurphyOn Woodstock Artists During The New Deal
DESCRIPTION:The Historical Society of Woodstock will host a talk and book signing by author and art historian John P. Murphy of Vassar College on “A New Deal for Woodstock Artists\,” about the role of Woodstock artists in New Deal art. He will also be signing copies of his book New Deal Art: Culture and Crisis in the Great Depression. This will take place on Sunday\, June 7 at 3:00 pm at the Historical Society’s Eames House Museum at 20 Comeau Drive\, Woodstock NY. Admission is free. \nAt the height of the Great Depression\, Franklin D. Roosevelt’s New Deal turned crisis into opportunity. Through unprecedented federal funding for the arts\, the New Deal launched the careers of artists such as Philip Guston\, Jacob Lawrence\, Alice Neel\, Jackson Pollock\, and Mark Rothko. State-sponsored murals\, paintings\, sculptures\, prints\, and posters appeared across the country in public buildings to nurture what FDR called a “more abundant life” for American citizens. \nCompared to similarly sized communities\, Woodstock enrolled a disproportionate number of artists on the federal art programs. Artists like Harry Gottlieb\, Doris Lee\, Eugene Ludins\, Austin Mecklem\, and Arnold Wiltz all worked on the New Deal programs\, and many received high-profile commissions. This talk will consider the significant role of the Woodstock art colony during an unprecedented moment in American cultural history. The author will be signing copies of his recent book\, New Deal Art: Culture and Crisis in the Great Depression\, the first survey in decades of the New Deal art programs. \nJohn P. Murphy is the Philip and Lynn Straus Curator of Prints and Drawings at The Frances Lehman Loeb Art Center\, Vassar College. He received his PhD in Art History from Northwestern University\, where he co-curated the exhibition “The Left Front: Radical Art in the “Red Decade\,” 1929-1940″ at the Mary and Leigh Block Museum. Murphy is currently working with the Philadelphia Museum of Art on an exhibition exploring Depression-era prints and politics. \n\nThe Historical Society of Woodstock was founded in 1929 by a group of artists\, writers\, academics\, and local citizens. In addition to the exhibition space\, which is located at the historic Eames House on Comeau Drive in the center of Woodstock\, the Historical Society has an extensive archive consisting of paintings\, prints\, drawings\, sculpture\, textiles\, photographs\, books\, manuscripts\, correspondence\, documents\, film/sound recordings\, and antique tools. The archive serves as a resource for a wide range of exhibitions\, public programming\, and research.
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