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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
A static visual representation. Examples include paintings, drawings, graphic designs, plans and maps. Recommended best practice is to assign the type Text to images of textual materials.
Original Format
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Oil painting
Physical Dimensions
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16 x 20 in.
Condition: surface dirt
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Title
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Fruit and Flowers
Creator
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Cogan, Martin
Publisher
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Federal Art Project
Date
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1937
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 #FA18134
Format
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jpeg, 986 KB
jpeg, 9.3 MB
Description
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A simple still life (perhaps deceptively so) includes as its ostensible objects a Grecian vase, flowers, and red grapes. Whether intentional or not, each element evokes a somewhat different artistic tradition: classical sculpture, informal nature in the form of daisies and zinnias, and European still life as represented by grapes. The entire arrangement sits upon a reflective surface.<br /><br /><span style="text-decoration: underline;">About the Artist</span>:We haven’t located any reliable information about this artist. Please help us if you have any information. 2 more images at <span><a href="https://www.aaa.si.edu/collections/federal-art-project-photographic-division-collection-5467/series-1/box-4-folder-36">FAP</a></span>.
Federal Art Project
Martin Cogan
New Deal Gallery
Painter
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Still Image
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Original Format
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Photograph
Physical Dimensions
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2 x 3 in.
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Title
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Painter Claude A. Patterson
Description
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Artist best known for his landscape paintings is shown here at about age 28, in a yearbook photo from Monmouth College, IL. At the time Patterson was an "instructor of water color and drawing." He went on to teach at many other colleges to help finance his artistic pursuits. During the 1930s Patterson was employed by the Federal Art Project, and five of his works are at the New Deal Gallery, Mt. Morris.
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Monmouth College
Date
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1915
Contributor
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Cooper, Ken
Source
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<em>Ravelings: Year Book of Monmouth College</em> 22 (1915): 7. <br /><br />Courtesy of Internet Archive
Format
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jpeg, 284 KB
Type
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Still image
Claude A. Patterson
Federal Art Project
New Deal Gallery
Painter
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Still Image
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Original Format
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Drawing
Physical Dimensions
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3 x 4 in.
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Title
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Celluloid Lighting Apparatus
Creator
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Kadowaki, Motoichi "Roy" (1885-1981)
Publisher
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United States Patent Office
Date
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1927-02-08
Contributor
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Cooper, Ken
Source
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<a href="https://archive.org/details/officialgazette354unit/page/n676">Internet Archive</a>
Format
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jpeg, 112 KB
Description
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Motoichi "Roy" Kadowaki was a Japanese-American artist; four of his paintings are at the New Deal Gallery, Mt. Morris. What we know of him is that his vocation always had to be supported by a variety of service jobs deemed appropriate for Japanese in the early 20th century: cook, waiter, servant. Aside from his extant paintings there are glimpses of a creative, even whimsical vision. This drawing dates to 1926, when Kadowaki filed a patent for "Lighting Apparatus" using a presumably translucent celluloid cockatoo.
The description for Patent Application #1,616,579 reads: "In lighting apparatus, the combination of an electric lamp socket support and a lamp enclosing member consisting of a hollow translucent celluloid body of elongated form having a slit adjacent to one end and a hole communicating with said slit for engaging said socket support, and a weight positioned inside one end of said body."
Type
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Still image
Design
Motoichi "Roy" Kadowaki
New Deal Gallery
Painter
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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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Gerrit Hondius, 1956
Creator
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Sidney J. Waintrob (1902-2002)
Abraham L. Waintrob (1908-2004)
Date
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1956
Contributor
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Cooper, Ken
Source
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Waintrob Project for the Visual Arts <br /><br /><a href="https://www.albrightknox.org/artworks/p19812533-gerrit-hondius">Courtesy of Albright-Knox Art Gallery</a>
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jpeg, 596 KB
Description
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Hondius (1891-1970), a New Deal Gallery artist, was born in Holland and fled Europe in 1915 amidst the Great War. He studied at Royal Academy in The Hague and the Laren Art Colony, then in New York at the Art Students League. He was known for his expressionist landscapes and paintings of circus performers.
Type
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Still image
Gerrit Hondius
New Deal Gallery
Painter
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Still Image
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Original Format
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Photograph
Physical Dimensions
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2 x 3 in.
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Title
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Photograph of Inez Abernathy
Description
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Abernathy (1873-1956) was a landscape painter whose work is located at the New Deal Gallery, Mt. Morris. In order to support herself, she also was an art instructor at various colleges: Belmont College (TN), Stanford Female College (KY), Columbia Female Institute (TN), the University of Arkansas. Here, she is shown in the 1910 yearbook of the Florida State College for Women, in Tallahassee. She was a dedicated teacher; five years earlier, 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.
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Florida State College for Women
Date
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1910
Contributor
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Cooper, Ken
Source
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<em>Flastacowo </em>Vol. 1 (1910): 18. Courtesy of <a href="https://archive.org/details/flastacowo11910flor/page/18">Internet Archive</a>
Format
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jpeg, 195 KB
Type
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Still image
Inez Abernathy
New Deal Gallery
Painter
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Still Image
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Original Format
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Photograph
Physical Dimensions
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4 x 4 in.
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Title
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Photograph of Bena Frank and Ralph Mayer
Date
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1935?
Contributor
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Cooper, Ken
Description
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Bena Frank (1898-1991) was a painter whose work for the Federal Art Project is displayed at the New Deal Gallery, Mt. Morris. She was a founding member of the New York Society of Women Artists. In 1927 she married artist Ralph Mayer (1895-1979), a painter whose chemical engineering background led to a specialization in paint manufacture, materials science, and art conservation. Together, they created the Artists Technical Research Institute in 1959.
Source
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Ralph and Bena Frank Mayer papers, [ca. 1920]-1964. Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution.
Format
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jpeg, 346 KB
Type
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Still image
Bena Frank
New Deal Gallery
Painter
Ralph Mayer
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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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Photograph of Thomas C. Cole
Publisher
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Rockport Art Association
Date
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1940
Contributor
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Cooper, Ken
Source
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Kitty Parsons Recchia, ed.,<em> Artists of the Rockport Art Association </em>(Rockport Art Association, 1940): 39.
Format
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jpeg, 642 KB
Type
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Still image
Cole, Thomas Casilear
New Deal Gallery
Painter
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Still Image
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Original Format
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Photographs
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Title
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Photographs of Joseph Biel and Lena Gurr
Description
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Joseph Biel (1891-1943) was a Jewish immigrant who had witness the pogroms of Bialystock, Russia; Lena Gurr (1897-1992), born in New York, was the daughter of Russian Jewish immigrants. Both were painters committed to social justice who appear to have supported each other wonderfully, including co-exhibition of their art at places like the Brooklyn Museum and enjoying Biel's inclusion at a 1939 World's Fair exposition.
Biel's painting "After the Storm," created as part of the Federal Art Project, is part of the New Deal Gallery's collection at Mt. Morris, NY. These three photos from Gurr's photo album are included here to help suggest their modern, reciprocal relationship.
Creator
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Gurr, Lena
Biel, Joseph
Date
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1. 1929-07
2. 1939
3. 1939
Contributor
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Cooper, Ken
Source
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Lena Gurr photograph album pages, 1914-1939 / Lena Gurr, photographer. Lena Gurr papers, 1908-1979. <a href="https://www.aaa.si.edu/collections/lena-gurr-papers-8997">Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution.</a>
Format
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1. jpeg, 165 KB
2. jpeg, 343 KB
3. jpeg, 320 KB
Type
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Still images
Federal Art Project
Joseph Biel
Lena Gurr
New Deal Gallery
Painter
Photo Album