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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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30 x 24 in.
Condition: slightly pitted
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Title
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Old Mill, Worthington, Mass.
Format
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jpeg, 1 MB
Description
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<p>The structures depicted here are in all likelihood those of the <a href="https://i2.wp.com/whs.eastus.cloudapp.azure.com/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2014/05/South-Worthington-Higgins-Mill-LR.jpg" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Theron Higgins Mill</a> located alongside the Little River in Worthington, MA. They’re rendered in a somewhat telescopic view so as to compress a nearly impossible number of scenic elements: river, dam, bridge, buildings, and several layers of foliage receding into the distance. Thick brushstrokes of vivid fall colors, arranged in bold masses, are typical of Owen’s painting style. <span style="text-decoration: underline;"><br /><br />About the Artist</span>: Born in North Adams, MA, Owen grew up in a farming family, moving to Boston at age twenty on a scholarship to study at the Eric Pape School of Art. Later, he would study at Art Students League, the Chase School and the National Academy of Design. Like many other aspirational artists of the day, Owen created illustrations for periodicals—<em>Cosmopolitan, Scribner’s, Harper’s</em>,<em> Life</em>—and for literary works, including the well-known author Hamlin Garland’s short story <a href="https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The_River%27s_Warning" target="_blank" rel="noopener">“The River’s Warning”</a> (1902), Helen Fuller Orton’s <a href="https://archive.org/details/bobbyofcloverfie00orto/page/n7?q=%22r.+emmett+owen%22" target="_blank" rel="noopener"><em>Bobby of Cobblefield Farm</em></a> (1922), and Percy K. Fitzhugh’s <a href="https://archive.org/details/tomslademotorcyc00fitz/page/n8?q=%22r.+emmett+owen%22" target="_blank" rel="noopener">“Tom Slade”</a> series of Boy Scout books. A turning point arrived in 1910, when Owen visited Connecticut and devoted himself to painting this region, regardless of the season; farmers called him “the feller who don’t mind the weather” (“Owen’s Pictures”). In 1920 Owen returned to New York with the novel idea of opening a gallery devoted to selling his own work, the Robert Emmett Owen New England Landscape Gallery. It would remain open at different locations until World War II, after which he was artist in residence at the <a href="https://openvalley.org/items/show/1056" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Thomas Paine Cottage Museum</a>. 5 works viewable at a 1935 Rains Gallery <a href="https://archive.org/details/unset00rain_16/page/52" target="_blank" rel="noopener">auction catalog</a>. 3 more images at <a href="https://www.aaa.si.edu/collections/federal-art-project-photographic-division-collection-5467/series-1/box-17-folder-39" target="_blank" rel="noopener">FAP</a>. His papers are at the <a href="https://www.aaa.si.edu/collections/robert-emmett-owen-papers-10754" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Archives of American Art</a>.</p>
<p><span style="text-decoration: underline;">Source Consulted</span>: “Owen’s Pictures on Exhibition,” <em>Orlando Sentinel</em> 1 June 1925: 5.</p>
Creator
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Owen, R[obert] Emmett, 1873-1957
Publisher
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Federal Art Project
Date
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1937-08-24
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 #FA18227
Type
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Still image
Identifier
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134
Federal Art Project
Mill
New Deal Gallery
painting
R. Emmett Owen
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Still Image
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Original Format
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Lithograph
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Title
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Thomas Paine Cottage Museum
Description
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In 1784, a grateful New York state legislature granted to the important American revolutionary Thomas Paine a farm seized from Tory supporter. Paine lived here between 1802 and 1806, surviving one attempt upon his life. Eventually the saltbox house was moved and passed into use as a public museum.
These two images were created by R. Emmett Owen, an artist with one work part of the New Deal Gallery collection. He was painter in residence for a period beginning shortly after 1945.
Creator
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Owen, R. Emmett, 1873-1957
Date
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Unknown
Contributor
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Cooper, Ken
Source
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<a href="http://www.westchesterhistory.com/index.php/home" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Courtesy of Westchester Historical Society</a> # HC-099
Format
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jpeg, 1.9 MB
Type
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Still image
Federal Art Project
New Deal Gallery
R. Emmett Owen
Thomas Paine