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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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20 x 24 in.
Condition: slightly stained, peeled in left & right lower corners
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Title
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The Old Stone House
Description
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A clearing in forested land, receding toward the painting’s center, draw our attention to a stone house. But it seems to have at least one and possibly two additions to its original structure; along with the farm outbuildings, road and bridge, and the cleared land itself, a passage of time is encoded into the landscape. In muted tones under a clear sky, massy and subtly rounded shapes lend a sculptural quality to the painting.<br /><br /><span style="text-decoration: underline;">About the Artist</span>: Born in Brooklyn, NY Lane spent much of his young life in Europe studying art—Bonn, Munich, Vienna, Paris—before returning home in 1928. His wife, the former Erna Schurtz, was a dancer in the Isadora Duncan school. Land exhibited in the Ferargil Galleries (1931)—where his portraits were praised for solving the problem of definite physical presentment and of intangible traits of character and personality most successfully” (New York <em>Evening Post </em>26 Dec. 1931: 3)—the 1939 World’s Fair, and the Bonestall Galleries (1940). He painted three murals for the Port Washington, NY post office in 1937 (“Lighthouse,” “Sailing,” and “Landscape”); another entitled <a href="https://livingnewdeal.org/artists/harry-s-lane/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">“Air Express”</a> ended up in Oakdale, LA. In 1949 Lane moved to the Berkshires permanently, continuing to exhibit and share his knowledge with artists in the community. 1 work at the <a href="https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search#!?q=%22harry%20lane%22&perPage=20&sortBy=Relevance&sortOrder=asc&offset=0&pageSize=0" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Metropolitan Museum of Art</a>. 1 work at <a href="http://vps343.pairvps.com:8080/emuseum/view/people/asitem/items@null:6473/0?t:state:flow=e4db09e1-f448-47c1-9dd7-41131e9a703f" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Worcester Art Museum</a>. 1 work at <a href="https://americanart.si.edu/artist/harry-lane-2787" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Smithsonian American Art Museum</a>. 3 more images at <a href="https://www.aaa.si.edu/collections/federal-art-project-photographic-division-collection-5467/series-1/box-13-folder-21" target="_blank" rel="noopener">FAP</a>.
Creator
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Lane, Harry S[chaeffer], 1891-1973
Publisher
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Federal Art Project
Date
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1935-1940
Source
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New Deal Gallery, Genesee Valley Council on the Arts
Object #FA18193
Format
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jpeg, 838 KB
jpeg, 14.2 MB
Type
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Still image
Identifier
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100
Contributor
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Ritz, Abigail (photography)
Cooper, Ken (biography)
Federal Art Project
Harry S. Lane
New Deal Gallery
painting