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New Deal Gallery
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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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Gouache painting
Physical Dimensions
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20 x 14 in.
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Title
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Local Stop
Creator
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Terrell, Elizabeth M., 1908-1993
Publisher
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Federal Art Project
Date
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1935-1940
Contributor
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Ritz, Abigail (photography)
Cannioto, Sydney (biography)
Cooper, Ken (biography)
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New Deal Art Gallery, Genesee Valley Council on the Arts
Object # FA18278
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jpeg, 1 MB
Description
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A local town is represented as a train stop, hinted at beyond a hill. It appears to be either fall or the middle of a drought, as the colors used are warm—mostly reds, oranges, and yellows—with the corn and surrounding vegetation brown and yellow. These colors contrast with the sky, which composes two thirds of the canvas, and is blue with cumulous clouds. Terrell’s painting is diagonally composed, and the left half of it seems more modernized, with its large buildings and what appear to be telephone poles and electric wires running to the buildings, in contrast to the right, which has telegraph wires and a small silo or water tower.<br /><br /><span style="text-decoration: underline;">About the Artist</span>: Born in Toledo, OH, Terrel spent most of her young life in Florida—her father was a bookkeeper—and studied at the Ringling School of Art and Design before moving to New York in 1932 after winning a scholarship to the Art Students League. The body of Terrell’s work is nearly impossible to imagine apart from the New Deal: her paintings appeared in the <a href="https://www.moma.org/artists/65752" target="_blank" rel="noopener">“New Horizons of American Art”</a> exhibit at the Museum of Modern Art, curated by FAP director Holger Cahill, and in WPA traveling shows like “New York Watercolors,” “Country Cross-Section,” and “America Through American Eyes.” Terrell also painted two post office murals for the WPA: <a href="https://livingnewdeal.org/projects/conyers-post-office-mural-conyers-ga/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">“The Ploughman”</a> (1940), in Conyers, GA; and “Reforestation” (1942), in Starke, FL. In 1936, along with Albert Potter, she created an imaginative five-part <a href="https://nycdesignarchive.tumblr.com/post/171898648020/history-of-the-usa-mural-by-elizabeth-terrell" target="_blank" rel="noopener">“History of the USA”</a> mural at City Hospital children’s room on Welfare Island (now called Roosevelt Island). Meanwhile her work appeared in such galleries as the Art Institute of Chicago, Brooklyn Museum, Metropolitan Museum of Art, Museum of Modern Art, and the Pennsylvania Academy of the Arts. She regularly showed in and around Woodstock, NY. 2 works at <a href="https://americanart.si.edu/artist/elizabeth-terrell-4760" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Smithsonian American Art Museum</a>. 1 work at the <a href="https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/488132" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Metropolitan Museum of Art</a>. 2 works at <a href="https://collections.hvvacc.org/digital/collection/waam/search/searchterm/terrell" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Woodstock Artists Association and Museum</a>. 2 works at the <a href="http://emuseumplus.unl.edu:8080/eMP/eMuseumPlus?service=ExternalInterface&module=artist&objectId=997&viewType=detailView" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Sheldon Museum of Art</a>. 1 work at <a href="https://uarizona.pastperfectonline.com/webobject/60E0CBD2-07F0-4D36-9D3D-256425216048" target="_blank" rel="noopener">University of Arizona Museum of Art</a>. 31 more images at <a href="https://www.aaa.si.edu/collections/federal-art-project-photographic-division-collection-5467/series-1/box-22-folder-40" target="_blank" rel="noopener">FAP</a>.
Identifier
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185
Type
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Still image
Elizabeth Terrell
Federal Art Project
Gouache
New Deal Gallery
painting