The Works Progress Administration fostered and indelibly shaped the work of the Transcendental Painting Group. An exhibition about the artists is on view at LACMA.
Palm Springs Art Museum reopens with desert heroine Agnes Pelton, who deserves a place alongside Georgia O'Keeffe among early American Modern artists.Many artists attempted to interpret the ceremonies and visual culture of the thriving Native American tribes in the state.
After the stock market crash of 1929, Jonson opened an art supply store in his garage to supplement his income, and at age 51, Pelton moved to Cathedral City in the California desert. Garman, who just graduated high school, noticed that everyone, including doctors and lawyers, were unemployed. He came to Albuquerque from Pennsylvania because the University of New Mexico offered tuition, room and board for $25 a month.
A view of “Another World: The Transcendental Painting Group, 1938–1945,” on view through June 19 at LACMA.regional director in New Mexico tasked with evaluating artists and maintaining project progress reports. Jonson completed six WPA murals before accepting a position to teach at the University of New Mexico. Garman joined WPA-funded archeological digs at ancient pueblos in the Rio Grande Valley sorting pottery shards. “I was saturated with patterns and arrangements,” he wrote.
Still, although the painting style of social realism was prevalent in the WPA, all artists found they were no longer outsiders. Communities observed the process of art-making in their local post office or school, which encouraged conversations with artists to stretch over many months.A 1937 Fortune magazine article wrote, “They [the WPA] brought the American audience and the American artists face to face for the first time in their respective lives.
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