America After the Fall: Painting in the 1930s

America After the Fall: Painting in the 1930s, edited by Judith A. Barter. Chicago: the Art Institute, 2017. First printing. The catalog of a seminal show in Chicago, these 50 master works from the era of the Great Depression examine the struggle to define America, in a time of national strife. Employing strikingly different styles, artists such as Edward Hopper, Grant Wood, Thomas Hart Benton, Georgia O’Keefe, Stuart Davis and many others, refined new approaches to modernism. Hardcover. 202 pages.