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Digital photograph
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Cathedral Termite Mounds
Description
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These striking natural structures are created by the cathedral termite (Nasutitermes triodiae) of Northern Australia. The tallest mounds can exceed ten feet in height. They appear in OpenValley as part of the <a href="https://openvalley.org/exhibits/show/green-new-deal--letchworth-ear/5-" target="_blank" rel="noopener">"Open World"</a> exhibit exploring the confluence of natural and human-made art.
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Alan (Flickr user name)
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Flickr
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2005-07-28
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Cooper, Ken
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Used by permission of a Creative Commons 2.0 license. <a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/kaptainkobold/33624228" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Link here to the original image.</a>
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jpeg, 358 KB
Earth Art
Green New Deal
Letchworth State Park
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Moving Image
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mp4
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10 seconds
Producer
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Cooper, Ken
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Lower Falls, Letchworth State Park
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From a trail below the falls, we look back upriver to a WPA-era stone bridge constructed by Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC) workers during the 1930s. This sort of organic stonework can be viewed at other locations in Western New York, like Stony Brook State Park in Dansville, Watkins Glen State Park in Watkins Glen, and Robert H. Treman State Park in Ithaca.
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Cooper, Ken
Date
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2018-10-25
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Cooper, Ken
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mp4, 16.3 MB
Civilian Conservation Corps
Green New Deal
Letchworth State Park
Lower Falls
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Still Image
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Nitrate negative
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2.25 x 2.25 in.
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Title
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Once a Missouri farmer, now a migratory farm laborer on the Pacific Coast, California
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Lange, Dorothea, 1895-1965
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Farm Security Administration
Date
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1936-02
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Cooper, Ken
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<a href="https://www.loc.gov/item/2017759832/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Library of Congress item #2017759832/</a>
Description
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Unidentified couple, displaced perhaps by drought, is one of thousands photographed by Lange during the 1930s. This item consists of the original photo and a cropped version created for the Green New Deal: Solastalgia exhibit.
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jpeg, 307 KB
jpeg, 891 KB
Climate Refugee
Dorothea Lange
Dust Bowl
Green New Deal
Photo
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Still Image
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Photograph of oil painting
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8 x 10 in.
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Title
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Orchard
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jpeg, 640 KB
Description
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The title of this painting is paradoxical, since none of the trees depicted appear to be the fruiting varieties usually associated with commercial orchards. Nor is it entitled "Arboretum," a collection of species under a landscaping rubric. Instead, Aberathy asks us to think about the relation between humans—represented in the two figures at lower right—and the fecundity of nature beyond our own definitions.<br /><span style="text-decoration: underline;"><br />About the Artist: </span>Abernathy, Inez. (1873-1956) Born in Summerville, AR, Abernathy studied at the Art Academy in Cincinnati and later in Europe. She supported herself by teaching art and elocution at Belmont College (TN), Stanford Female College (KY), Columbia Female Institute (TN), the University of Arkansas, and the<a href="https://fsuspecialcollections.wordpress.com/tag/inez-abernethy/" target="_blank" rel="noopener"> Florida Female College</a>. At this last institution, when a fire broke out Abernathy guided her students to safety rather than saving her own art and equipment; the Florida legislature passed a special bill to help compensate her loss (<em>The Weekly True Democrat</em> 29 Sept 1905: 1). She studied art for a period in Paris, and her painting “Reverie” was shown at the 1902 Salon des artistes français, described by one reporter as “the full-length figure of a girl seated, with a background of dull blues and yellows. A springtime freshness pervades the picture” (<em>San Francisco Chronicle </em>26 Oct. 1902: 6). Her works were exhibited at the Academy of Fine Art, Philadelphia, and the National Academy of Design. Two more digital images from<a href="https://www.aaa.si.edu/collections/federal-art-project-photographic-division-collection-5467/series-1/box-1-folder-4" target="_blank" rel="noopener"> FAP</a>.
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Abernathy, Inez, 1873-1956
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Federal Art Project
Date
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1939-06-12
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Cooper, Ken
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<a href="https://www.aaa.si.edu/collections/federal-art-project-photographic-division-collection-5467/series-1/box-1-folder-4" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Archives of American Art, Federal Art Project, Photographic Division, Box 1, Folder 4.</a>
Federal Art Project
Green New Deal
Inez Abernathy
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New Deal Gallery
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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
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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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Engraving
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15 x 7.5 in.
Condition: surface dirt on glass
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Oyster House (The Dock)
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We see a dock or port building with two ships moored. Jones uses ink sparingly, but cross-hatches aggressively to convey the dark paint of the dock and shadows on the water. For lighter objects, he implies more than illustrates shape through his clear mastery of weight and shadow—the water, the sky, and the grass are left as negative space—upon blank white paper, with only a few lines scattered to imply shape and texture. The mountains at the edge of the canvas, too, lose definition and shape, vanishing into loose lines towards the left, but remain stark as they fade out of view within frame. The dock building itself commands attention at the center of the canvas, it’s entrance face rounding out the right side of the composition, its dark shading balancing out the stark white of the smaller ship and the water. The contrast of the water, mountains, and dock is surprisingly uniform across the canvas, as Jones masterfully balances positive and negative space—he leaves enough blank to not let ink dominate the canvas. A note about the painting: for at least twenty-five years this etching has been listed as missing; it was re-located in April 2019. It probably depicts the <a href="https://portjeff.com/wp-content/gallery/business-historical-photos/2011-8-94.jpg" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Suwasset Oyster Company</a> in Port Jefferson, NY, which was destroyed by winter storms in 1934.<br /><br /><span style="text-decoration: underline;">About the Artist</span>: Born in Manchester, NH, Jones studied painting at the Cowles Art School in Boston under <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ernest_Lee_Major" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Ernest Major</a> and <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_DeCamp" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Joseph de Camp</a>. His early career involved commercial illustration for the publisher <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frank_Munsey" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Frank A. Munsey</a>, an indication of that style during this period possibly shown in his whimsical illustrations for a children’s book called <a href="https://archive.org/details/monkeyshineslitt00hall" target="_blank" rel="noopener"><em>Monkey Shines</em></a> (1904). Among the places where Jones’ work was exhibited include the Salmagundi Club (1907, 1917, 1929), the Panama Pacific International Exposition in San Francisco (1915), and the Brooklyn Museum of Art (1930-31). In addition to the etching housed at the NDG, Jones’ other work for the WPA appeared at a rotating exhibition in Patchogue, NY (1936) and a posthumous print exhibition at Keuka College, Penn Yan, NY (1941). From about 1933 to 1940, he taught art at the Stony Brook School for Boys, a Christian co-ed college preparatory school. He lived for many years in Port Jefferson, NY. 12 works at <a href="http://www.the-athenaeum.org/art/list.php?m=o&s=du&oid=1.&f=a&fa=4598" target="_blank" rel="noopener">The Athenaeum</a>. 1 work at the <a href="https://artsbma.org/collection/misty-day-in-winter/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Birmingham Museum of Art</a>. 1 work at the <a href="https://www.mfa.org/collections/search?search_api_views_fulltext=leon+foster+jones&title=&culture=&artist=&creditline=&accession=&provenance=&medium=" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Museum of Fine Arts, Boston</a>. 1 more image at <a href="https://www.aaa.si.edu/collections/federal-art-project-photographic-division-collection-5467/series-1/box-11-folder-50" target="_blank" rel="noopener">FAP</a>.
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Jones, Leon Foster, 1871-1940
Publisher
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Federal Art Project
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Ritz, Abigail (photogrphy)
Vanamee, Nicholas (biography)
Cooper, Ken (biography)
Source
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New Deal Gallery, Genesee Valley Council on the Arts
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jpeg, 1.2 MB
Type
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Still Image
Date
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1935-1940
Engraving
Federal Art Project
Green New Deal
Leon Foster Jones
New Deal Gallery
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Still Image
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Book engraving
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Title
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Pedigree of Man
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jpeg, 979 KB
Description
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Ernst Haeckel was an important 19th-century biologist, especially in describing the relations and connections between different organisms. He was, in fact, inventor of the term <em>ecology</em>--the study of nature's "household." For his 1879 book <em>The Evolution of Man</em>, he devised this figurative tree showing animal life on earth that preserved hierarchical assumptions predating Darwin. At the tree's pinnacle, or rather crown we are assured that evolution has been working toward the creation of humanity.
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Haeckel, Ernst Heinrich Philipp August, 1834-1919
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Wikimedia Commons
Date
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1897
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Cooper, Ken
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Ernst Haeckel, <em>The Evolution of Man: A Popular Exposition of the Principal Points of Human Ontogeny and Phylogeny</em> (D. Appleton, 1897): 219. <a href="https://archive.org/details/evolutionofmanpo021897haec/page/n218" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Web version at Internet Archive.</a>
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Still image
diagram
Ernst Haeckel
Evolution
Green New Deal
Tree of Life
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Still Image
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Original Format
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Composite digital image
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Title
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Artwork for Green New Deal
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Theobald, Samuel (painting)
Moody, Melissa (design)
Cooper, Ken (design)
Date
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2019
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jpeg, 580 KB
Description
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This image combines Samuel Theobald's 1937 painting <a href="https://openvalley.org/items/show/1042" target="_blank" rel="noopener">"Close Relations"</a>, a Keeling Curve showing the rise in global carbon dioxide levels, and a stylized grid. It was created for a series of exhibits hosted by OpenValley.
Type
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Still image
Green New Deal
New Deal Gallery
Samuel Theobald
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Still Image
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Original Format
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Photograph
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Title
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Dust Storm Approaching Stratford, Texas
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NOAA George E. Marsh Album
Date
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1935-04-18
Contributor
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Cooper, Ken
Source
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NOAA's National Weather Service Collection
Image ID #theb1365
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jpeg, 989 KB
Type
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Still image
Description
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"Black Sunday," 14 April 1935, was one of the worst dust storms in recorded U.S. history. Amidst drought conditions and amplified by poor agricultural practices, strong winds displaced hundreds of millions of tons of topsoil in the Great Plains--but particularly in Oklahoma and the Texas panhandle. This photograph was taken four days later but conveys a sense of how severe these anthropogenic events were.
1930s
Black Sunday
Dust Bowl
Green New Deal