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Tag Archives: 1940’s
1948: Fence and Tree
Albert Reuss: Fence and Tree (1948)
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Tagged 1940's, 20th Century, Albert Reuss, Art, Austria, Great Britain, Landscapes, Painting, Trees
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1944: The Removal of Sewell Avery
In 1942, in an effort to avoid strikes in war-related industries, Franklin Roosevelt reinstated the War Labor Board and directed it to oversee and arbitrate negotiations between unions and employers. Most unions had also agreed not to strike during the … Continue reading
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Tagged 1940's, 20th Century, Franklin Delano Roosevelt, Harry Hall, Harry S. Truman, Industry, Labor, Montgomery Ward, Photography, Sewell Avery, Strikes, Unions, USA, WWII
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1943: Mountain Landscape
Konstantin Bogaevsky: Mountain Landscape The painting is undated; Bogaevsky died in 1943
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Tagged 1940's, 20th Century, Art, Konstantin Bogaevsky, Landscapes, Mountains, Painting, Ukraine
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1946: Beauty and the Beast
Jean Cocteau, director: La Belle et la Bête (1946)
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Tagged 1940's, 20th Century, Art, Fairy Tales, Film, France, Jean Cocteau, Jean Marais, Josette Day, Monsters
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1947: Iridescence
Andrey Avinoff: Iridescence (1925-1947) The entomologist Andrey Avinoff emigrated from Russia to the USA after the revolution and worked at the Carnegie Museum of Natural History for 20 years, eventually becoming its director. He turned to painting only later in … Continue reading
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Tagged 1920's, 1940's, 20th Century, Andrey Avinoff, Animals, Art, Butterflies, Drawing, Flowers, Insects, LGBTQ, Painting, Russia, Soviet Union, USA
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1941: FDR and Captain America’s Shield
Captain America recieving his trademark circular shield from FDR in June, 1941. From Captain America #255 (March, 1981) (Roger Stern, writer; John Byrne, artist). The shield’s history developed slowly. Originally, in Captain America Comics #1 (March 1941), Cap carried … Continue reading
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1945: With These Blows of My Hammer
On September 14, 1945, trade unionist Paul Bebert, a former concentration camp prisoner, destroyed the swastikas that Nazis has affixed to union offices in Hamburg. He read this statement to the crowd: With these blows of my hammer I will … Continue reading
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Tagged 1940's, 20th Century, Fascism, Germany, Labor, Paul Bebert, Unions, WWII
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