Above: "The Fair Sex," a lithograph by Claire Millman Mahl (1912-1988), created while she was in the WPA, ca. 1935-1943. This artwork seems to show the Great Depression's effect on different income & wealth groups. Notice that the women in the foreground, presumably from the upper crust of society, have sunken and starved faces too. Image courtesy of the General Services Administration and the Sheldon Museum of Art.
Above: A close-up view of the most dispirited character in Millman's "The Fair Sex."
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