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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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Lithograph print
Physical Dimensions
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16.5 X 12.5 in.
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Title
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Summer in the Berkshires
Description
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This landscape portrays the rural mountainous region in western Massachusetts known as the Berkshires. Sketched entirely in black and white, the rolling hills and clusters of trees appear almost gloomy. A series of farms, divided by thin wire fences, make up the majority of the middle ground. The top half of the lithograph shows a series of light grey clouds, providing a sense of movement that parallels the tall, wispy grasses in the foreground.<br /><br /><span style="text-decoration: underline;">About the Artist</span>: Born in the Bronx, New York, Brandfield studied at the National Academy of Design, the Art Student’s League and Cooper Union. According to one profile he was “an accomplished woodblock artist and lithographer active in the graphic arts division of the New York City WPA. He has been exhibited at the Chicago Art Institute, Los Angeles Museum, Whitney Museum of American Art and the New York Public Library” (<i>A-D Magazine</i> 6.5 [June-July 1940]). As of 1932 Brandfield was working at the New York Public Library; in 1939, his lithograph “Circus” was selected for a traveling WPA show that stopped in places like Butte, MT; Casper, WY; and Miami, OK. He moved to California at least by 1960 and lived in Grover Beach beginning in 1977, where he continued to work as a printmaker. 6 works at<a href="https://www.nga.gov/collection/artist-info.33227.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener"><span class="s1"> </span><span class="s2">National Gallery of Art</span></a>. 3 works at<a href="https://americanart.si.edu/artist/dayton-brandfield-550" target="_blank" rel="noopener"><span class="s1"> </span><span class="s2">Smithsonian American Art Museum</span></a>. 17 works at<a href="https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search#!/search?artist=Brandfield,%20Dayton$Dayton%20Brandfield" target="_blank" rel="noopener"><span class="s1"> </span><span class="s2">Metropolitan Museum of Art</span></a>. 2 works at<a href="https://gallery.newarkmuseum.org/view/people/asitem/items@null:1010032/0?t:state:flow=26647e75-bdb9-4d0e-9d78-0c931021427e" target="_blank" rel="noopener"><span class="s1"> </span><span class="s2">Newark Museum</span></a>.1 work at <a href="http://collection.artbma.org/emuseum/view/objects/asitem/3201/617/primaryMaker-asc?t:state:flow=01969b8d-780e-489b-bff0-2b9f074d8e64" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Baltimore Museum of Art</a>. 1 work at<a href="https://www.dia.org/art/collection?keys=Brandfield&keyword=&start=&end=&sort_bef_combine=search_api_aggregation_6+ASC&Submit+Collection+Search=Search+Collection" target="_blank" rel="noopener"><span class="s1"> </span><span class="s2">Detroit Institute of Arts</span></a>. 3 more images at<a href="https://www.aaa.si.edu/collections/federal-art-project-photographic-division-collection-5467/series-1/box-3-folder-25" target="_blank" rel="noopener"><span class="s1"> </span><span class="s2">FAP</span></a>.
Creator
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Brandfield, Dayton, 1911-1993
Publisher
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Federal Art Project
Date
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1935-1940
Contributor
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Ritz, Abigail (photography)
Sheedy, Marianna (biography)
Cooper, Ken (biography)
Source
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New Deal Gallery, Genesee Valley Council on the Arts
Object #FA18122
Format
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jpeg, 933 KB
jpeg, 6.6 MB
Type
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Still Image
Identifier
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032
Berkshires
Dayton Brandfield
Federal Art Project
lithograph
New Deal Gallery