#Depression Era

[markonpark]

Etsy, MARKonPARK: Cheers! Historic undated Depression-era photo of a group of men happily drinking coffee.

[jadeseadragon]

Elizabeth Olds (American, 1896 - 1991), Burlesque, 1936, lithograph, 14½ × 11 in. (36.8 × 27.4 cm), Philadelphia Museum of Art.

[lamicacessa]

Una dura verità: se sei sottopeso, allora tutti si preoccupano che tu abbia un dca.. se sei sovrappeso allora per il mondo tu “vuoi solo mangiare”, “hai troppo appetito” “t piac a parmaggiana e melanzan” “mang mang”… noi sovrappeso con un dca siamo i veri invisibili, nessuno ci crede, nessuno si preoccupa per noi, nessuno ci considera.

Grazie genere umano, grazie per tutto lo schifo che mi regali.

[clemsfilmdiary]

The Funeral (1996, Abel Ferrara)

3/1/24

[icarusgirl]

girls life

[vertigoartgore]

The Thing & Torgo (far away from Earth in the galaxy of the Skrulls, on a planet looking like America in the 20's/30's) by Gerald Walker.

Gerald Walker : "The Thing Enslaved". This oil painting on canvas is based on the story arc that ran through issues #90 to 93 of Fantastic Four.

[soaguywalksintoabar]

“i’m getting so fucked up tonight” but it’s my version

[psychoooooooooooooooo]

Ricevere troppo amore, troppa protezione, può essere pericoloso…

È come quando innaffi troppo una pianta, le radici marciscono e alla fine muore.

A volte dare di più , anche se lo fai in buona fede, non è sempre corretto.

[pwlanier]

Picked up a nice etching by American, WPA artist Raphael Soyer (1933-1989) at a garage sale this morning.

Sorry for the poor photograph, it is under glass.

“Protected” was created in an edition of 250 in 1938.

It is in the collection of most major museums including the Smithsonian and the Metropolitan Museum of Art.

Once dubbed the “East Side Degas,” Russian-Jewish émigré and social-realist painter Raphael Soyer depicted ordinary men and women in contemporary settings. While studying at the Art Students League of New York under Guy Pène du Bois, he was influenced by the Ashcan School’s faithful representations of daily life in New York City’s poorer corners. Soyer rejected abstract art, stating, “I choose to be a realist and a humanist in art.” In sympathetic renderings of the unemployed during and after the great economic crash of 1929, many of Soyer’s paintings came to embody the Depression, as in the drawn, weary face and soft eyes that gaze out of Portrait of Walter Broe (1932). Soyer also painted women in large numbers and various forms throughout his career, including nudes, shop-girls, prostitutes, and pedestrians, displaying a love for and fascination with the manifold faces of humanity. WIKI

Moses and Raphael Soyer were identical twin brothers. Born in Russia, they immigrated with their family to America in 1913. They both studied art in New York, and went on to become successful figurative painters. During the 1930s, the brothers became involved with the Works Progress Administration and worked together on several large projects, including a mural for the Kingsessing Station Post Office in Philadelphia. Both Raphael and Moses were influenced by the Depression and painted many realistic scenes that expressed their concern for America’s poor and unemployed citizens. SMITHSONIAN

[cosmicwhoresimpingismyliving]

I miss the person I used to be now I just feel hollow full of a never ending sadness.

[fallensapphires]

Stories: To Kill a Mockingbird (1960)

I have nothing but pity in my heart for the chief witness for the state. She is the victim of cruel poverty and ignorance...but my pity does not extend so far as to her putting a man's life at stake which she has done in an effort to get rid of her own guilt.

[jadeseadragon]

Dox Thrash (American, 1893 - 1965), Untitled (Strike), ca. 1940, watercolor, 17⅛ in. × 12 in. (43.5 × 30.5 cm), Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia.

[lamicacessa]

Mi faccio schifo.

Tutto di me mi fa schifo.

Vorrei solo sparire.

Vorrei chiudere gli occhi, riaprirli e svegliarmi come una persona in grado di fare quello che vuole.

Invece non sono in grado di fare nulla, un bel niente.

Nemmeno controllare il cibo.

Ci provo, mi danno, ma poi penso sempre "tanto ci ricasco, tanto poi mangio, tanto non ce la fai".

E lo voglio davvero.

Ma faccio schifo, in tutto.

Non esiste una sola cosa in cui io sia brava.

[ahedderick]

   “Dear Dorothy                       July 9

  I will have two dozen eggs for you Saturday to satisfy those two motherly-inclined hens you have. The old German I spoke to you about had none suitable for that purpose. We have a fellow working in our department who lives on a farm near Grantsville, and he said he would bring me two dozen Friday. They have Plymouth Rock and Rhode Island Reds.

   The first half of this week at the Strand [theater] they are showing the pictures taken by the Byrd Expedition into the Antarctica. Today is the last day. They should be very interesting, so I think I shall go down at noon to see them. I wish they would have continues them until Saturday night.

[ok, my eyes are having trouble with this . . I’ll skip to the end]

   Will look for you Saturday evening and will gladly meet you at the train before your shopping expedition. I don’t object to going along.

Lovingly, Lester”

This doesn’t say what year, and there were three different “Byrd Expeditions”, but it’s almost certainly in the 1930s. My grandfather Lester (1891 - 1955) and my grandmother Dorothy (1901 - 1969) married in the early thirties but lived apart for nearly a decade. They didn’t live in the same house until around 1940, and had my mother in 1941 - when he was 50 and she was 40!

[confident-but-mostly-confused]

✨Depression Era✨ Bo-Katan should have had a depression haircut. Bangs, buzz cut, wolfcut, A MULLET

[pineapplebutnoapple]

la vita è come un’ananas pungente all’esterno, ma dolce all’interno🍍