U.S.A.: One Hundred American Works on Paper, 1925–1950, from the Permanent Collection of the Jundt Art Museum, Gonzaga University
Jundt Galleries and Arcade Gallery, January 25 to May 10, 2025
Major exhibition catalogue forthcoming January 2025
Opening reception, free and open to the public: Friday, January 24, 4 to 7pm.
This special, temporary display features a survey of 100 American works on paper, created during the second quarter of the 20th century, including the era of the Great Depression and World War II. The works on paper in Art U.S.A. represent “The American Scene,” a country-wide affinity among artists for images of everyday urban and rural life and of the regional landscape, and for reflections on the cultural identity of the United States in the 1920s through the 1940s. Most of the artists, counting significant numbers of immigrants or children of immigrants, women, and artists of color, in the exhibition participated in at least one of the many federal government-supported art programs during the Depression.
Art U.S.A. also includes a loan of a painting, connected to the history of post office murals in our region, from the Smithsonian American Art Museum.
Image: Fletcher Martin (American, 1904–1979)
Lantern Test (study for mural in the Kellogg, Idaho, Post Office), ca. 1939
Ink and wash on paper, 19 7/8 × 13 3/8 inches
Jundt Art Museum, Gonzaga University; Museum purchase with funds provided by the Fredrick and Genevieve Schlatter Endowed Print Fund
Wednesday, February 26, 7pm, free and open to the public:
Film documentary, The New Deal for Artists (1979), narrated by Orson Welles.
Running time: 90 minutes. Charlotte Y. Martin Foundation Lecture Hall (Jundt 110)
Monthly tours with the curator:
Friday, January 24: 5pm
Friday, February 7: 4pm
Wednesday, March 5: Noon
Wednesday, April 2: 10am
Friday, May 9: 3pm