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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 on Canvas
Physical Dimensions
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29.5 x 23.5 in
Condition: surface dirt, dent left corner
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Title
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Summer Landscape
Description
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Baumbach’s work depicts a summer landscape in what appears to be a rural farm town from an aerial view. The colors are bright, and cool tone variations of green dominate much of the space. The greens are contrasted by a blue waterway and a yellow field which stretch across the center of the painting, and by several red building structures that sit at the bottom. Rolling hills stretch back into the horizon. Despite the wide view, there is much attention to detail and the painting also features roads, animals, crops, and fences.<br /><br />
<p><span style="text-decoration: underline;">About the Artist:</span> Born on New York’s Lower East Side, Baumbach was the son of an upholsterer and largely a self-taught painter. His original emphasis was upon upstate landscapes; later, he moved on to increasing abstraction in his work, influenced perhaps by his friends <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mark_Rothko" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Mark Rothko</a> and <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adolph_Gottlieb" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Adolph Gottlieb</a>, but always with his own distinct style. Baumbach was among the founders of the radical journal <a href="https://www.aaa.si.edu/collections/art-front-5779" target="_blank" rel="noopener"><em>Art Front</em></a> (1934-1937), created as “a publication which speaks for the artist, battles for his economic security and guides him in his artistic efforts” (<em>Art Front 1.1</em> [Nov. 1934]: 2.) Later, his name would come up amidst investigations into “subversive organizations” by the House Un-American Activities Committee. After World War II Baumbach taught painting at Brooklyn College. Although highly regarded by fellow artists, popular success eluded him: “Strong willed, allergic to fashion, even to success, he persisted in going his own way, refusing to sell to prospective buyers he thought did not admire the work properly and breaking off relations with galleries usually after only a show or two” (<em><a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2002/01/04/arts/harold-baumbach-98-a-painter-who-explored-color-and-space.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">New York Times 4 Jan. 2002</a></em>). He was the father of writer Jonathan Baumbach and grandfather of film director Noah Baumbach. 1 work at the <a href="http://collection.whitney.org/artist/73/HaroldBaumbach" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Whitney Museum of American Art</a>. 1 work at the <a href="https://hirshhorn.si.edu/search-results/search-result-details/?edan_search_value=hmsg_66.400" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Hirshorn Museum</a>. 2 works at the <a href="https://library.brooklyn.cuny.edu/library/art/index.php?view=single&item_id=68&image_id=56" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Brooklyn College Library</a>. 1 more image at <a href="https://www.aaa.si.edu/collections/federal-art-project-photographic-division-collection-5467/series-1/box-2-folder-18" target="_blank" rel="noopener">FAP</a>.</p>
Creator
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Baumbach, Harold, 1903-2002
Publisher
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Federal Art Project
Contributor
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Ritz, Abigail (photography)
Schmeer, Samantha (biography)
Cooper, Ken (biography)
Source
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New Deal Gallery, Genesee Valley Council on the Arts
Object Number: FA18114
Format
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jpeg, 883 KB
Type
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Still Image
Date
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1935-1940
Identifier
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024
1930s
Farm
Federal Art Project
Harold Baumbach
landscape
New Deal Gallery