Depression-era photography has become strongly associated with a documentary style, but “Reality Makes Them Dream” shows other facets of life at the time, as in Marion Post Wolcott’s “Center of town, ...
Grant Wood’s “Bibbed Overalls Cupboard Door,” created about 1925, featured denim glued to painted wood. This piece sparked the museum’s summer exhibition “Overalls: Grant Wood’s Depictions of Denim,” ...
Check out Ken Farmer's appraisal of a folk art marionette, ca. 1930, in this social extra from Living History Farms in Urbandale, IA. Funding for ANTIQUES ROADSHOW is provided by Ancestry and American ...
In the We the People series, The Spokesman-Review examines a question from the Naturalization Test immigrants must pass to become United States citizens. Today’s question: What was the Great ...
Part 1. Modernism on the margins. Erotic mythmaking and depression politics: Alfred Stieglitz and Dorothy Norman -- Katherine S. Dreier's conflicting passions: Modernism and German nationalism -- Part ...
For a curator in search of a compelling exhibition, there’s little better than a fresh, revealing storyline, a cast of artists both well-known and not, and art to substantiate the narrative. That’s ...
More than any other institution in the city, the University of Denver should be credited with establishing and nurturing contemporary art in the early to mid-twentieth century. But despite the ...
‘Reality Makes Them Dream’ features over 100 prints, periodicals and photo books from the 1930s that go beyond the documentary-style images we’ve come to expect from the era. Marion Post Wolcott, ...