John P Murphy

New Deal Art

Sprache: Englisch.
kartoniert , 256 Seiten
ISBN 0500205027
EAN 9780500205020
Veröffentlicht 28. Oktober 2025
Verlag/Hersteller Thames & Hudson
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Beschreibung

A vibrant and insightful account of the diverse artists and activists who made up the New Deal art programs and the influential legacy of the artwork they left behind.

Portrait

John 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. At the Art Institute of Chicago, Murphy curated Flesh: Ivan Albright (2018); the accompanying digital catalogue received an Award of Excellence from the Association of Art Museum Curators. He is also a leading scholar on African American artist Charles White.