Artists of the Great Depression

I was happy to attend Artists of the Great Depression show in Masur Museum of Art in Monroe,LA this past October. But I was even more happy that all of my family decided to come and the father of my two beautiful grandchildren Eric Lincoln wrote an article about the show. Here are some excerpts:

"I have known some artists with great depressions, yes, but I just never put “artist” and “great depression” together in a historical sense. Who had time to paint when you had to scrabble through the dust searching for grubs to feed your family for dinner? How could you develop film when there was no water and the air was thick with soot?

Nevertheless, I resigned myself to my fate as self-appointed volunteer art blogger for our God-fearin’ northeastern country, and parked in the Masur’s lot with my head hung respectfully low, presuming that I was about to enter into an exhibit of … what, I don’t know, maybe photos of gravestones and still lifes of dried, rotting fruit that’s been crushed by broken wagon wheels.

Moving on, there were some more striking photo portraits from Winans and nice selections from Eudora Welty, particularly “Self Portrait, 1934,” by Winans, and “Sunday School, Holiness Church, Jackson Miss.,” from 1939, by Welty. Moody, black-and-white images like these make me remember why there is still such an allure to film photography. The girls in Welty’s photo look simultaneously angelic and ghost-like."

I send everyone interested to the original post at ArtNella

Artists of the Great Depression and ULM Art Faculty Exhibit

Posted by Eric Lincoln on September 16th, 2009