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Born December 3, 1897 • New York City • New York
Died January 6, 1977 (aged 79) • New York
Notable Works “Burning Wheat” • “The Shoemaker”
Movement / Style Social Realism
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Rudolf Bauer
German-born artist
George Grosz.
George Grosz
German artist
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Lyonel Feininger
American artist
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Walt Kuhn
American painter
self-portrait by Grant Wood
Grant Wood
American artist
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Jack Levine
American artist
Benton, Thomas Hart
Thomas Hart Benton
American painter
Edward Hopper: Nighthawks
Edward Hopper
American artist
Ben Shahn, 1966.
Ben Shahn
American artist
Reginald Marsh
Reginald Marsh
American artist
Portrait of José Herrera
Peter Hurd
American painter
Justice of the Pains: The Movement Westward, mural by John Steuart Curry, 1936; in the U.S. Department of Justice Building (Robert F. Kennedy Building), Washington, D.C.
John Steuart Curry
American painter
Honoré Daumier
Honoré Daumier
French artist
The Painter and His Pug, self-portrait by William Hogarth, oil on canvas, 1745; in the Tate Gallery, London.
William Hogarth
English artist
Illustration by Walter Crane for The Frog Prince (1873).
Walter Crane
British illustrator and painter
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Antonio Berni
Argentine artist
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Mikhail Ivanovich Kalinin
Soviet statesman
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Thomas W. Dewing
American artist
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Max Fleischer
American animator
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Leon Falk
American comic-strip writer

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