The Abstract Gallery, designed by Frederick Kiesler, one of the spaces in...

The Abstract Gallery, designed by Frederick Kiesler, one of the spaces in Peggy Guggenheim Art of This Century gallery in New York City, detail

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Creator nameAbbott, Berenice

Creator nationality/cultureAmerican

Creator rolePhotographer

Creation datec. 1942

Object typePhotograph

MaterialsUnknown

DimensionsUnknown

LocationUnknown

Accession numberUnknown

SubjectsArt--Collectors and collectingModernism (Art)Women art patrons

StatusWorks shown are by Wassily Kandinsky, Fernand Léger, and Theo van Doesburg, among others

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Description: Art of the United States, 1750–2000: Primary Sources

8. War and Cold War, Anxiety and Affluence, 1939–1960

John Davis, Michael Leja

Art of the United States, 1750–2000: Primary Sources

As the German army swept across Europe in 1939 to 1941, and as Japanese forces conquered the Pacific, the United States remained wary of being drawn into another tragic and costly overseas war. Japan’s surprise attack on Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, in December 1941 ended the uncertainty; the country became unified behind President Roosevelt’s ensuing declaration of war. The first several...

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John Davis, Michael Leja

Subjects: Artists' writingsUnited States--In artArts and societyAbstract Expressionism--United StatesModernism (Art)

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