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[Seminar] The 1930s was one of the most fertile decades in the history of American Art. The decade opened with the United States plunged into an economic depression, compounded by catastrophic climatic changes. The decade closed with the New York World’s Fair proclaiming that the country stood on the brink of “The World of Tomorrow.” American artists, supported in large part by unprecedented government patronage of the arts, documented this historic time period in countless paintings, prints, sculptures, photographs and films. Whether they relied on the native strain of American Realism or chose to embrace aspects of European modernism, American artists produced an incredibly rich and diverse body of work that gives shape and definition to this momentous decade.