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Title
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New Deal Gallery
Description
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This collection of more than 200 paintings owes its existence to two primary causes: allocations from the Federal Art Project to a New York state tuberculosis sanatorium located at Mt. Morris--the landscapes and still lifes were thought to be restful--and to the committed volunteers who helped preserve the paintings after the hospital closed. For several decades the canvases were stored in non-climate-controlled basements; it appears that doctors and staff removed at least three dozen works as "keepsakes." <br /><br />Despite the seeming tranquility of the paintings, they were created by artists primarily from New York City whose background was more political and aesthetically adventurous than this rural location would indicate. <a href="https://openvalley.org/exhibits/show/green-new-deal/about" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Follow this hyperlink to a short introduction to the New Deal Gallery collection</a>. We're grateful to the Genesee Valley Council on the Arts for access to their collection, which has been re-photographed and appears here at two resolutions: a cropped, web-friendly file size of around 1 MB; and a high-resolution file including the painting's frame.<br /><br />Items in this collection were created according to a consistent format: a short description of each painting in formal terms, followed by a biography of each artist. Where possible we have supplied hyperlinks relevant to their lives and to other examples of their art. In order to better view them using the Omeka program, click on the "View All" option at the bottom of this page to access various sorting options.
Date
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1935-1940
Contributor
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Cooper, Ken (project director)
Ritz, Abigail (photography and project assistant)
Additional research: Justin Anderson, Jessica Apthorpe, Jay Bang, Kristopher Bangsil, Julia Caldwell, Sydney Cannioto, Sabrina Chan, Paige Closser, Victoria Domon, Elana Evenden, Yadelin Fernandez, Michael Griffin, Madison Jackson, Niamh McCrohan, Ben Michalak, Ricky Noel, Elizabeth Ramsay, Skye Rose, Samantha Schmeer, John Serbalik, Marianna Sheedy, Emily Spina, Alison Stern, Ravenna VanOstrand, and Nicholas Vanamee.
Special thanks to: Deborah Bump, Mark Calicchia, Elizabeth Harris, Melissa Moody, Rebecca Lomuto, and Mai Sato.
Still Image
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Original Format
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Oil painting
Physical Dimensions
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26 x 30 in.
Condition: surface dirt, slight pitting
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Title
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Spectre of the Roses
Format
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jpeg, 988 KB
jpeg, 12.1 MB
Description
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This painting takes its name from <em><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Le_Spectre_de_la_rose">Le Spectre de la rose</a></em>, a short ballet created in 1911 by Jean-Louis Vaudoyer. In it, a young girl dreams of dancing with the spirit of a rose worn to her first ball. It was famous for the performance of legendary dancer <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Le_Spectre_de_la_rose#/media/File:Vaslav_Nijinsky_in_Le_spectre_de_la_rose_1911_Royal_Opera_House.jpg">Vaslav Nijinsky</a>, who leaped through one of the two large windows pictured at the back of the stage. Reinhart’s painting carefully retains markers of its theatrical origins, from spotlights to the dancers’ costumes, from the production’s stage to instruments in the orchestra pit at front.<span style="text-decoration: underline;"><br /><br />About the Artist</span>: Born in Baltimore, MD, Reinhart studied art at the Maryland Institute and then moved to New York City at age 21. Reinhart’s use of dance and theater as subject matter for his painting appears to have grown out of lived experience, with a strong preference for the exotic. He designed costumes and a drop curtain for <a href="https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=nyp.33433042938807;view=2up;seq=60" target="_blank" rel="noopener"><em>The Golden Doom</em></a>, set just before the fall of Babylon; dressed himself as a “Persian Demi-God” to win the prize for costume at Baltimore’s “Bal de Arts”; and sketched out truly incredible ideas for two “Fancy Dress Costumes.” A <em>New York Times </em>art critic noted around this time, after seeing Reinhart’s work at the New York Water Color Club, “a closer intimacy than used to exist between the stage and the exhibition galleries” (<em>New York Times </em>5 Nov. 1916: 67). Reinhart’s earlier paintings like “Dancing Slave” (1916), “Moment Musical” (1916), and “The Ballet” (1921) anticipate the NDG’s “Specter of the Roses”—which depicts <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Le_Spectre_de_la_rose" target="_blank" rel="noopener">a short ballet</a> of that name wherein the famous dancer Vaslav Nijinsky (as the spirit of a rose) leaped through a window at its conclusion. Reinhart’s work appeared in venues like the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts and the Art Institute of Chicago. In 1920 he was paired with <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mark_Tobey" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Mark Tobey</a> for an exhibition at St. Mark’s Hall. Gradually, Reinhart’s attention turned towards commissioned portraits. Starting in 1947 and until his retirement in 1963, he was director of art at the Friends Seminary day school, New York. 1 more image at <a href="https://www.aaa.si.edu/collections/federal-art-project-photographic-division-collection-5467/series-1/box-19-folder-4" target="_blank" rel="noopener">FAP</a>.
Creator
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Reinhart, Stewart, 1897-1970
Publisher
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Federal Art Project
Date
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1935-1940
Contributor
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Ritz, Abigail (photography)
Cooper, Ken (biography)
Source
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New Deal Gallery, Genesee Valley Council on the Arts
Object #FA18251
Type
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Still image
Identifier
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158
Dancing
Federal Art Project
New Deal Gallery
painting
Stewart Reinhart
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Still Image
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Original Format
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Woodcut on paper
Physical Dimensions
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approx. 11 in. x 17 in.
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Title
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"A grand ball"
Description
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Folks from all walks of life and in all parts of the country enjoyed parties, dancing, and balls in 19th-century America. The caption on this wood engraving, which appeared in Harper's Weekly in 1869, reads "Grand Ball Given in Honor of President Grant at the Stetson House, Long Branch July 26."
Creator
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Bush, Charles Green (1842-1909)
Publisher
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Harper's Weekly
Date
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1869-08-14
Contributor
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Suhr, Katrina
Source
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Harper's Weekly, Aug. 14, 1869: 520.
Format
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jpeg, 136 KB
Type
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Still image
19th Century
Balls (Parties)
Dancers
Dancing
Socials