American artist Robert Gwathmey (1903-1988) was a leading member of the Social Realist movement that flourished from the 1930s through the 1950s. Like his fellow Social Realists, Gwathmey used his art to expose privilege and pretense, demand social justice and call for major changes in the prevailing socioeconomic system. Gwathmey was an 8th-generation Virginian, and throughout his life his main artistic themes were race relations and his native South. He is perhaps best remembered as the first white American painter to ...
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American artist Robert Gwathmey (1903-1988) was a leading member of the Social Realist movement that flourished from the 1930s through the 1950s. Like his fellow Social Realists, Gwathmey used his art to expose privilege and pretense, demand social justice and call for major changes in the prevailing socioeconomic system. Gwathmey was an 8th-generation Virginian, and throughout his life his main artistic themes were race relations and his native South. He is perhaps best remembered as the first white American painter to depict African Americans in an unromanticized, respectful manner. Using a unique style that combined a deliberate two-dimensional flatness with deep and vivid colours, Gwathmey illuminated the inherent dignity of the tenant farmers and sharecroppers who were his subjects. As a lifelong activist against injustice, Gwathmey was kept under surveillance by the FBI for nearly 30 years. Using Gwathmey's FBI file, along with numerous interviews and archival records, Michael Kammen crafts a portrait of an engaging American painter in the midst of dramatic social and political change.
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VG. Color pictorial wraps. 240 pp. 48 color, 67 bw plates. The author, with the help of Gwathmey's FBI file, along with numerous interviews and records in the Archives of American Art, crafts a compelling portrait of an engaging American painter in the midst of dramatic social and political change.
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