Monday, January 2, 2017

New Deal Art: "The Farm"

Above: "The Farm," an oil painting by Kenjiro Nomura (1896-1956), created while he was in the New Deal's Public Works of Art Project, 1934. Nomura later became known for the drawings & paintings he made while he was held in a Japanese internment camp during World War II. Wikipedia has an interesting biography of Nomura here. Image courtesy of the Smithsonian American Art Museum.

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