Social Realist Artists

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Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 48. Chapters: Dorothea Lange, Diego Rivera, Jacob Lawrence, David Alfaro Siqueiros, Ralph Stackpole, Ben Shahn, Reginald Marsh, Mark Vallen, Gilbert Brown Wilson, William Gropper, Esther Bubley, Walker Evans, Anton Refregier, Jose Clemente Orozco, Jacques Hnizdovsky, Tom Stone, Jack Levine, Frederick Walker, Aaron Berkman, Maynard Dixon, Carlos Alonso, Victor O’Connor, Raphael Soyer, Hubert von Herkomer, Mahonri Young, Isabel Bishop, Frank Holl, Thomas Benjamin Kennington, Noel Counihan, Isaac Soyer, James Guthrie, Leon Bibel, Felipe Seade, Roy Dalgarno, Emigdio Vasquez, Stevan Dohanos, Moses Soyer, Alexander Melamid, Herbert McClintock. Excerpt: Ralph Ward Stackpole (May 1, 1885 – December 13, 1973) was an American sculptor, painter, muralist, etcher and art educator, San Francisco’s leading artist during the 1920s and 1930s. Stackpole was involved in the art and causes of social realism, especially during the Great Depression, when he was part of the Federal Art Project for the Works Progress Administration (WPA). Stackpole was responsible for recommending that architect Timothy L. Pflueger bring Mexican muralist Diego Rivera to San Francisco to work on the San Francisco Stock Exchange and its attached office tower in 1930-31. His son Peter Stackpole became a well-known photojournalist. Stackpole worked as a laborer early in life to support himself and his mother following the death of his father in a lumber mill circular saw accident. At sixteen, he came to San Francisco to study at the California School of Design beginning in 1903; he was influenced strongly by Arthur Frank Mathews, muralist and painter at the school. He met painter Helen Arnstein (later Helen Salz) while both were teenagers, and she became his first girlfriend. Arnstein, the daughter of wealthy Jewish art lovers and one year Stackpole’s senior, …