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Associated American Artists (AAA) was an art gallery in New York City that was established in 1934 and ceased operation in 2000. [1] The gallery marketed art to the middle and upper-middle classes, first in the form of affordable prints and later in home furnishings and accessories, and played a significant role in the growth of art as an industry.
The Associated Actors and Artistes of America (4As), established in 1919, [1] is the federation of trade unions for performing artists in the United States. [ 2 ] The union was established by the merger of the Actors' Equity Association and the White Rats of America .
Along with other regional artists, Curry was commissioned to create advertisements for a Lucky Strike ad campaign that spanned from 1942 to 1944. This campaign associated Luckies with the down-home, folksy look of regional art. The American Tobacco Company did not capitalize on the war or use military themes when advertising for their ...
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Jackson Lee Nesbitt was born in McAlester, Oklahoma and worked for his father's printing business until 1931, when he enrolled in the University of Oklahoma, Norman. [2] His given names conjure up the names of Confederate generals astride their valiant steeds; however, in truth, the names are derived from his maternal and paternal grandparents.
The National Association of Artists' Organizations (NAAO) was, from 1982 through the early 2000s, a Washington, D.C.–based arts service organization which, at its height, had a constituency of over 700 artists' organizations, arts institutions, artists and arts professionals representing a cross-section of diverse aesthetics, geographic, economic, ethnic and gender-based communities ...
Social art became significant, with 1933–38 seeing the formation of the John Reed Clubs, the Artists Union, the Harlem Artists Guild, and the American Artists' Congress. [1] Artists had an idealistic view of working-class culture and used the labor movement as a sort of prototype for their mission. There was a shift in the patronage, subject ...
American Abstract Artists was one of a number of Great Depression Era artist run organizations in the United States, others included Artists Union, American Artists' Congress, American Artists School, John Reed Club, [104] The Ten, [18] Federation of Modern Painters and Sculptors, [105] Harlem Artists Guild, [106] Sculptors Guild, [107] Artists ...