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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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Gouache painting
Physical Dimensions
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9 x 12.5 in.
Condition: surface dirt
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A table, whose covering appears to have been folded back, becomes the space for an arrangement of flowers in a vase and a beaded necklace in a ceramic dish. Cool blues, grays, and burgundys predominate. The flat picture plane, absence of background space, and diagonal (even tilted) lines combine create an unstable space--the Blue Beads seem to be spilling out of the dish.<span style="text-decoration: underline;"><br /><br />About the Artist</span>: Born in St. Louis, MO, Harris moved to New York in 1920 and studied at the Art Students League with <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Max_Weber_(artist)" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Max Weber</a>. There he met other students with whom he would collaborate in the years ahead, eventually exhibiting along with <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mark_Rothko" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Mark Rothko</a>, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Milton_Avery" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Milton Avery</a>, and others at a 1928 show at Opportunity Galleries. In 1934 Harris joined the new Secession Gallery, then left a year later to co-found <span><a href="http://www.louisschanker.info/tendisc.htm" target="_blank" rel="noopener">"The Ten"</a></span>, a collective of expressionist painters upholding abstract art at a time when the Whitney Museum was shifting its emphasis to social realism. They argued that their mission was “a protest against the reputed equivalence of American painting and literal painting... [instead seeing] objects and events as though for the first time, free from the accretions of habit and divorced from the conventions of a thousand years of painting.” The group, which also included Rothko, Lou Schanker, Adolph Gottlieb, and Ben-Zion, held group shows between <span><a href="http://www.warholstars.org/abstract-expressionism/abstract/ten.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">1935-39</a></span>. At their final show, NDG artist David Burliuk was included. Harris’s painting “Water Tanks” was selected for a 1938 FAP exhibit on Long Island, focused upon farms and rural life; fellow NDG artists Bena Frank, Herman Copen, and Tomizo “Thomas” Nagai also appeared. 3 works at <span><a href="http://www.kemperartmuseum.wustl.edu/collection/explore/artist/559" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Kemper Art Museum</a></span>. 1 work at <span><a href="http://rosecollection.brandeis.edu/Obj5743?sid=5230&x=149644" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Rose Art Museum</a></span>. 2 more images at <span><a href="https://www.aaa.si.edu/collections/federal-art-project-photographic-division-collection-5467/series-1/box-10-folder-13" target="_blank" rel="noopener">FAP</a></span>. His papers are at <span><a href="https://library.syr.edu/digital/guides/h/harris_l.htm" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Syracuse University</a></span>.
Title
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The Blue Beads
Creator
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Harris, Louis, 1902-1970
Format
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jpeg, 914 KB
jpeg, 9.3 MB
Publisher
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Federal Art Project
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 #FA18169
Type
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Still image
Date
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1935-1940
Identifier
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079
Federal Art Project
Louis Harris
New Deal Gallery
painting