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American Artists' Congress, the Glossary

The American Artists' Congress (AAC) was an organization founded in February 1936 as part of the popular front of the Communist Party USA as a vehicle for uniting graphic artists in projects helping to combat the spread of fascism.^[1]

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Arts organizations established in 1936
Communist Party USA mass organizations

Adolf Dehn

Adolf Dehn (November 22, 1895 – May 19, 1968) was an American artist known mainly as a lithographer.

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Adolph Gottlieb

Adolph Gottlieb (March 14, 1903 – March 4, 1974) was an American abstract expressionist painter who also made sculpture and became a print maker.

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Alexander Calder

Alexander Calder (July 22, 1898 – November 11, 1976) was an American sculptor known both for his innovative mobiles (kinetic sculptures powered by motors or air currents) that embrace chance in their aesthetic, his static "stabiles", and his monumental public sculptures.

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Alexander Stavenitz

Alexander Raoul Stavenitz (31 May 1901 – 11 February 1960) was a Russian Empire-born American visual artist and educator.

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Alexander Trachtenberg

Alexander "Alex" Trachtenberg (23 November 1884 – 26 December 1966) was an American publisher of radical political books and pamphlets, founder and manager of International Publishers of New York.

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Artists Union

The Artists Union or Artists' Union was a short-lived union of artists in New York in the years of the Great Depression. American Artists' Congress and artists Union are arts organizations based in New York City.

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Barbara Morgan (photographer)

Barbara Morgan (July 8, 1900 – August 17, 1992) was an American photographer best known for her depictions of modern dancers.

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Ben Shahn

Ben Shahn (September 12, 1898 – March 14, 1969) was an American artist.

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Beulah Stevenson

Beulah Eisle Stevenson (1890–1965) was an American painter and printmaker.

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Civil liberties

Civil liberties are guarantees and freedoms that governments commit not to abridge, either by constitution, legislation, or judicial interpretation, without due process.

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Claire Mahl Moore

Claire Mahl Moore (1917–1988) was an American artist known for her printmaking.

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Communist Party USA

The Communist Party USA, officially the Communist Party of the United States of America (CPUSA), is a communist party in the United States which was established in 1919 after a split in the Socialist Party of America following the Russian Revolution.

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David Alfaro Siqueiros

David Alfaro Siqueiros (born José de Jesús Alfaro Siqueiros; December 29, 1896 – January 6, 1974) was a Mexican social realist painter, best known for his large public murals using the latest in equipment, materials and technique.

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Dorothy Eisner

Dorothy Eisner (1906–1984) was an American artist whose painting style evolved over many years from an early, quite personal, version of 1930s social realism, through a period of abstract expressionism, and culminating over the last twenty years of her life in a bright painterly style that critics saw as fluid, masterfully composed, and expressionistic.

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Earl Browder

Earl Russell Browder (May 20, 1891 – June 27, 1973) was an American politician, spy for the Soviet Union, communist activist and leader of the Communist Party USA (CPUSA).

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Edward Biberman

Edward Biberman (October 23, 1904 – January 27, 1986) was an American artist active in the mid-twentieth century.

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Eitaro Ishigaki

was a Japanese-born American painter.

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Fascism

Fascism is a far-right, authoritarian, ultranationalist political ideology and movement, characterized by a dictatorial leader, centralized autocracy, militarism, forcible suppression of opposition, belief in a natural social hierarchy, subordination of individual interests for the perceived good of the nation or race, and strong regimentation of society and the economy.

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George Albert Harris

George Albert Harris, also known as George Harris (1913–1991), was an American painter, muralist, lithographer, and educator.

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George Biddle

George Biddle (January 24, 1885 – November 6, 1973) was an American painter, muralist and lithographer, best known for his social realism and combat art.

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Gladys Aller

Gladys Aller (July 13, 1915 - March 5, 1970) was an American painter.

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Graphic arts

A category of fine art, graphic art covers a broad range of visual artistic expression, typically two-dimensional, i.e. produced on a flat surface.

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Great Depression

The Great Depression (19291939) was a severe global economic downturn that affected many countries across the world.

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Harlem Artists Guild

The Harlem Artists Guild (1935–41) was an African-American organization founded by artists including Augusta Savage, Charles Alston, Elba Lightfoot, Louise E. Jefferson and bibliophile Arthur Schomburg with the aims of encouraging young talent, providing a forum for the discussion of the visual arts in the community, fostering understanding between artists and the public through education towards an appreciation of art, focusing on issues of general concern to Black artists such as racism, poverty and unemployment, and cooperating with agencies to improve conditions and raise standards of living and achievement among African-American artists. American Artists' Congress and Harlem Artists Guild are arts organizations based in New York City.

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Harold Ambellan

Harold Ambellan (1912–2006) was an American sculptor.

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Helen West Heller

Helen West Heller (1872 – November 19, 1955)Various sources provide a date of birth in either 1870 or 1885, but most agree on a date of 1872.

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Herbert Ferber

Herbert Ferber (1906 – 1991) was an American Abstract Expressionist, sculptor and painter, and a "driving force of the New York School.".

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Hugo Gellert

Hugo Gellert (born Hugó Grünbaum, May 3, 1892 December 9, 1985) was a Hungarian-American illustrator and muralist.

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Ida Abelman

Ida York Abelman (1910–2002) was an American artist and muralist in the 1930s.

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Ilya Bolotowsky

Ilya Bolotowsky (July 1, 1907 – November 22, 1981) was an early 20th-century Russian-American painter in abstract styles in New York City.

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Isamu Noguchi

was an American artist and landscape architect whose artistic career spanned six decades, from the 1920s onward.

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James Johnson Sweeney

James Johnson Sweeney (1900–1986) was an American curator and writer about modern art.

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Jerome Klein

Jerome Klein was an American art historian and art critic and a founding member of the American Artists' Congress (AAC).

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John Opper

John Opper (1908–1994) was an American painter who transitioned from semi-abstract paintings in the late 1930s to fully abstract ones in the 1950s.

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John Reed Clubs

The John Reed Clubs (1929–1935), often referred to as John Reed Club (JRC), were an American federation of local organizations targeted towards Marxist writers, artists, and intellectuals, named after the American journalist and activist John Reed. American Artists' Congress and John Reed Clubs are communist Party USA mass organizations.

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Jolán Gross-Bettelheim

Jolán Gross-Bettelheim (January 28, 1900–July 29, 1972) was a Hungarian artist who lived and worked in the United States from 1925 to 1956, before returning to Hungary.

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José Clemente Orozco

José Clemente Orozco (November 23, 1883 – September 7, 1949) was a Mexican caricaturist and painter, who specialized in political murals that established the Mexican Mural Renaissance together with murals by Diego Rivera, David Alfaro Siqueiros, and others.

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Jose de Creeft

José Mariano de Creeft (November 27, 1884 – September 11, 1982) was a Spanish-born American artist, sculptor, and teacher known for modern sculpture in stone, metal, and wood, particularly figural works of women.

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Joseph Freeman (writer)

Joseph Freeman (1897–1965) was an American writer and magazine editor.

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Lena Gurr

Lena Gurr (1897–1992), was an American artist who made paintings, prints, and drawings showing, as one critic said, "the joys and sorrows of everyday life." Another critic noted that her still lifes, city scenes, and depictions of vacation locales were imbued with "quiet humor," while her portrayal of slum-dwellers and the victims of warfare revealed a "ready sympathy" for victims of social injustice at home and of warfare abroad.

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Lewis Mumford

Lewis Mumford (19 October 1895 – 26 January 1990) was an American historian, sociologist, philosopher of technology, and literary critic.

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Lorser Feitelson

Lorser Feitelson (1898–1978) was an artist known as one of the founding fathers of Southern California–based hard-edge painting.

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Luis Arenal Bastar

Luis Arenal Bastar (born Teapa, 1908 or 1909 – died Mexico City, May 7, 1985) was a Mexican painter, engraver and sculptor.

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Mabel Dwight

Mabel Dwight (1875–1955) was an American artist whose lithographs showed scenes of ordinary life with humor and tolerance.

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Mary E. Hutchinson

Mary E. Hutchinson (July 11, 1906 in Melrose, Massachusetts – July 10, 1970 in Atlanta, Georgia) was an artist and art instructor from Atlanta who lived and worked in New York City during the years of the Great Depression and World War II.

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Maurice Becker

Maurice Becker (1889– August 28, 1975) was a radical political artist best known for his work in the 1910s and 1920s for such publications as The Masses and The Liberator.

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Max Weber (artist)

Max Weber (April 18, 1881 – October 4, 1961) was a Jewish-American painter and one of the first American Cubist painters who, in later life, turned to more figurative Jewish themes in his art.

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Maxine Albro

Maxine Albro (January 20, 1893 – July 19, 1966) was an American painter, muralist, lithographer, mosaic artist, and sculptor.

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Meyer Schapiro

Meyer Schapiro (23 September 1904 – 3 March 1996) was a Lithuanian-born American art historian who developed new art historical methodologies that incorporated an interdisciplinary approach to the study of works.

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Mike Gold

Michael Gold (April 12, 1894 – May 14, 1967) was the pen-name of Jewish American writer Itzok Isaac Granich.

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Milton Avery

Milton Clark Avery (March 7, 1885 – January 3, 1965Haskell, B. (2003). "Avery, Milton". Grove Art Online.) was an American modern painter.

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Moses Soyer

Moses Soyer (December 25, 1899 – September 2, 1974) was an American social realist painter.

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Neutrality Acts of the 1930s

The Neutrality Acts were a series of acts passed by the US Congress in 1935, 1936, 1937, and 1939 in response to the growing threats and wars that led to World War II.

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New York City

New York, often called New York City (to distinguish it from New York State) or NYC, is the most populous city in the United States.

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Paul Cadmus

Paul Cadmus (December 17, 1904 – December 12, 1999) was an American artist widely known for his egg tempera paintings of gritty social interactions in urban settings.

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Philip Evergood

Philip Howard Francis Dixon Evergood (born Howard Blashki; 1901–1973) was an American Social Realist painter, etcher, lithographer, sculptor, illustrator and writer.

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Popular front

A popular front is "any coalition of working-class and middle-class parties", including liberal and social democratic ones, "united for the defense of democratic forms" against "a presumed Fascist assault".

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Proletarian revolution

A proletarian revolution or proletariat revolution is a social revolution in which the working class attempts to overthrow the bourgeoisie and change the previous political system.

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Raphael Soyer

Raphael Zalman Soyer (December 25, 1899 – November 4, 1987) was a Russian-born American painter, draftsman, and printmaker.

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Republican faction (Spanish Civil War)

The Republican faction (Bando republicano), also known as the Loyalist faction (Bando leal) or the Government faction (Bando gubernamental), was the side in the Spanish Civil War of 1936 to 1939 that supported the government of the Second Spanish Republic against the Nationalist faction of the military rebellion.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Artists'_Congress

Also known as American Artists Congress.

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Arts organizations established in 1936

Communist Party USA mass organizations

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