Monday, January 19, 2026

Mixed Thirties

Leroy Flint
Street Car Rush
1936
etching (WPA project)
Art Institute of Chicago


Don Freeman
Automat Aristocrat
1934
lithograph
Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington DC

Leslie Gill
Studio Window, West 56th Street, New York
1938
gelatin silver print
New Orleans Museum of Art

Louis Faurer
Boardwalk, Atlantic City, NJ
1937
gelatin silver print
Loeb Art Center, Vassar College, Poughkeepsie, New York

William Gropper
Help! It's caving in!
1933
drawing
Loeb Art Center, Vassar College, Poughkeepsie, New York

Hugo Gellert
Art Front
1934
lithograph (magazine cover)
Archives of American Art, Washington DC

Walker Evans
Battlefield Monument - Vicksburg, Mississippi
1936
gelatin silver print
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

Harry Gottlieb
Winter on the Creek
ca. 1936-38
screenprint
Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington DC

Claire Falkenstein
Inside a Lumber Mill
1934
watercolor on paper
Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington DC

Charles Ginner
Hampstead Heath, Spring
1932
oil on canvas
Ashmolean Museum, Oxford

John Gutmann
Looking at the Game, San Francisco
1934
gelatin silver print
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

Johan Hagemeyer
Portrait of painter Ina Perkham Storey
1931
gelatin silver print
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

Wanda Gág
Grandma's Parlor
1930
lithograph
Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington DC

John Ferren
Composition
1936
painted plaster relief
Buffalo AKG Art Museum, New York

Arshile Gorky
Abstract Forms
1931-32
ink and wash on paper
Buffalo AKG Art Museum, New York

Hans Bellmer
La Poupée
1938
hand-colored gelatin silver print
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

Berenice Abbott
Portrait of Max Ernst
1931
gelatin silver print
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

    The learned Gaspar Schottus dedicates his Thaumaturgus Mathematicus unto his tutelary or Guardian Angel, in which epistle he useth these words: cui post deum conditorem deique magnam matrem mariam omnia debo.  Now though we must not lose God in good Angels or, because their presence is always supposed about us, hold lesse memorie of the omnipresency of God in our prayers and addresses for his care and protection over us, yet they who do assert such spirits do find something out of Scripture and Antiquitie for them.  But whether the Angel which wrasled with Jacob were Esau's good angel; whether our Saviour on earth had one deputed unto him, or whether that was his good Angel which appeared and strengthened him before his passion; whether Anti-Christ shall have any; whether all men have one, some more; whether these Angels do guard successively and distinctly unto one person after another or whether but once and singly but one person at all; whether we are under the care of our mother's good Angel in the womb or whether that spirit undertakes us when the starres are thought to concern us (that is, at our nativities), men have a libertie and latitude to opinion.  

– Sir Thomas Browne (1605-1682)