The Waiting Room, 1936

Curators: Constance Schwartz and Franklin Hill Perrell

EXHIBITION DATES: August 15 - October 31, 2004 Published by the Nassau County Museum of Art All rights reserved Library of Congress Control Number 2003113208 Printed in the United States of America Bus Passengers,

Cover illustration: Raphael Soyer, 1939

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F.D.R. AND THE WPA ERA: ART ACROSS AMERICA

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5 Lenders to the Exhibition Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, ew York John and Dolores Beck American Art Collection -\rlene Berman and Jeffrey Myers -\rlene Berman Fine Arts, ew York, Y Museum of Art The Caldwell Gallery, Manlius, NY Canajoharie Library and Art Gallery The Honorable Joseph P. Carroll, ew York The Clair Family Thoma Colville Fine Art Dalla Museum of Art The Adolph and Esther Gottlieb Foundation, ew York Grey Art Gallery, ew York University Art Collection Studio Museum, Hir hhorn Museum and Garden. Smithsonian Institute : rk and Linda Hopper Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art, Cornell University Tma and Larry Jones Yance Jordan Fine Art Roberta and Maurice Katz :iechel Fine Art, Lincoln, ebraska Lowe Art Museum, University of Miami \Ir. and Mrs. Michael R. Martone \lercury Gallery, The Metropolitan Museum of Art \lontclair Art Museum \lu eum of the City of ew York '\;avyArt Collection '\ewYork City Health and Hospitals Corporation Art Collection Courtesy of the Art Commission of the City of ew York Gerald Peters Gallery The Portnoy Family Private Collections Chaim Gross The Queens Borough Library TightropeDance,; The Collection of Philip J. and Suzanne Schiller American Social Commentary Art 1930-1970 1933 Ja on Schoen Fine Art. Miami. FL The Estate of Ben Shahn William Kelly Simpson. ew York Smithsonian American Art Museum Ira Smolin and Linda Washburn The Spiro Family Syracuse University Art Collection Susan Teller Galley, 1 Y Woodstock Artists Association

7 Paul Sample Matthew 6: 19 (Tin Auction), 1939

37 Philip Rei man Untitled (Mural Study), 1940 Loading Iron. 19r-8 gouache on paper. 17" x 22" oil on ma onire. 20" x 21" The Estate of Lee Krasner; Courtesy Robert Miller Gallery, Courre y Tina and Larry Jones New York Philip Reisman Reginald Marsh God Bless America. 1940 George C. Tilyou's Steeplecbase Park, 1936 oil on masonire. 25" x 17" egg tempera on fiberboard. 36" x 48" The Collection of Philip J. and uzanne chiller American Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden. Smithsonian ocial Commentary Art 1930-19"'0 Institute, Gift of rhe Joseph H. Hirshhorn Foundation, 1966 :.1ark Rorhko Reginald Marsh Subway Station, 1939 Coney Island Beacb, 1938 oil on canvas, 36" x 24" egg tempera, 35" x 29-1/2" Collection of Ira molin and Linda Washburn The Clair Family Paul Sample Reginald Marsh Cartin' tbe Leaf, 1942 Burlesque Scene, Irving Place, 1939 oil on ca1n-as, 26" x 42" Y egg tempera on paper, 20" x 16" The Caldwell Gallery. Ma.nliu , N Vance Jordan Fine Arr and Thomas Colville Fine Art Paul ample Kenneth Hayes Miller Sand Lot Ball Game, 1939 Through tbe Sbop Window. 1934 oil on canvas. 30" x 40" oil on canvas, 30" x 37" On loan courtesy of Canajoharie Library and Art Gallery The Clair Family Paul ample Dale Nichols Mattbew 6·19 (TbeAuction), 1939 Sunrise. 1934 oil on canvas, 29-3/8" x 35-3/8" oil on canva , 24" x 30" Collection of the Lowe Art Museum, niversity of Miami; Courtesy Jason choen Fine Art, Miami. FL Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Myron Hokin, 57.062.000

WilJiam Charles Palmer World's Fai1; Queens, NY, 1939 WNYC Mural Studies (Orcbestra), 1937 oil on canvas, 22" x 44-1/2" gouache on paper, 11-1/2" x 33-1/4" The Caldwell Gallery, Manlius, NY Private Collection; Courtesy of Mercurr Gallery. Boston

Guy Pene du Bois Louis Schanker Tbe Conversationalists, 1936 WNYC Mural Studies (Orcbestra). 193 oil on canva , 40" x 30" gouache on paper, 11-1/2" x 33-1/4" The Clair Family Private Collection; Courtesy of usan Teller Gallery� ewYork

Jackson Pollock Loui chanker Going West, ca. 1934-35 WNYCMural Studies (Orcbestra), 193 oil on fiberboard, 15-1/8" x 20-3/4" gouache on paper, 15" x 21" Smithsonian American Art Museum, Gift ofThomas Hart Private Collection; Courtesy of Mercury Gallery, Bosron Benton Louis chanker WNYC Mural Studies (Musicians), 193 Composition witb Masked Forms, 1941 gouache on paper, 15-1/4" x 26-1/4" oil on canva , 27-3/4" x 51" Private Collection; Courtesy of Susan Te ller Gallery, New Private Collection York

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