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Weisman Expansion
By the People, for the People:
New Deal Art at the Weisman

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ArtSounds

Artsounds is the Weisman Art Museum’s free audio program. A new addition to the Artsounds menu is a playlist with commentary related to Paul Shambroom: Picturing Power, featuring artist Paul Shambroom, curator Diane Mullin, and University of Minnesota students.

Hear more about New Deal art from University art historian Karal Ann Marling on Artsounds tracks available here and at the Weisman on our iPod program.

Dorothea Lau - Workers - Five O'Clock, 1935-1940


Leonard Havens - Sandblaster, 1940


Minnetta Good - Artist at Work, ca. 1933-43


Berenice Abbott - Murray Hill Hotel: Spiral, 112 Park Avenue, Manhattan, 1935


Edward Weston - Squash-#284C, 1936


Lucia Wiley - The Winter of the Blue Snow, 1942


Julia Thecla - Ballet Utopia, 1940


Mael Dwight - Museum Guard, 1936


Gertrude Abercrombie - White Horse, 1938


Cameron Booth - Archer Daniels Midland Co., 1934


Dewey Albinson - River Flats, 1934


Arnold Klagstad - Administration Building, 1934

U of M Campus (1:02)



Unknown artist - Unknown title, ca. 1933-43



Erika Doss Lecture (1:00:27)
May 8, 2008
Picturing New Deal America: The Visual Arts and National Identity, 1933-1945

 
runs

May 8 – July 27, 2008

Groups may arrange for a tour focused on this exhibit. Volunteer-led tours may be scheduled for groups of 10-50 at least three weeks in advance. There is a fee of $2 per visitor for this service. Contact Jamee Yung, education assistant, at (612) 625-9656 or wamtour@umn.edu.