Gallery conversation with Lou Di Gennaro, Special Collections Conservator, and Laura McCann, Conservation Librarian, Barbara Goldsmith Preservation and Conservation Department, who will discuss their work in conserving photographs, books, and a poster in The Left Front and preparing them for display.
The Left Front highlights the work of American artists who took to their brushes amid the economic and social devastation brought on by the Great Depression. Joining forces in the John Reed Club and its successor, the American Artists’ Congress, a group of intellectuals and artists—among them Isabel Bishop, Louis Lozowick, John Sloan, and Raphael Soyer—tackled themes ranging from class struggle, labor organizing, unemployment, civil and workers’ rights, immigration, socialist mysticism, and utopian communities to the Spanish Civil War.
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