Feeding the Swan, 1940 Landscape Art The social and economic upheaval

The social and economic upheaval brought about by the Great Depression caused many American artists to reject European influences and to seek distinctively “American” themes and idioms

"This painting was done for Fortune magazine when Dad was a pictorial reporter covering the Mississippi flood

Dad described the girl in `Acropolis' as a `child at Propylea

March 13 - September 7

Field Trials

Feeding the Swan, 1940 Landscape Art The social and economic upheavalFeeding the Swan, 1940, a limited edition stone lithograph by Ben Messick. Exhibited: California Scene Paintings 1930 1960, Pasadena Museum of California Art, March July, 2013. California Scene Paintings 1930 1960, The Irvine Museum, January 18 May 18, 2014. Literature: Windows in Time, California Scene Paintings from the Hilbert Collection, by Mark Hilbert and Jean Stern.