The Ken Trevey Collection of American Realist Prints

Description

The AD&A Museum is indebted to UC Santa Barbara alumnus Ken Trevey for this significant contribution to the Museum’s holdings in graphic arts. The Ken Trevey Collection tells the stories of Americans across a broad socio-economic spectrum during the 1930s and 1940s. In addition, the Trevey Collection provides the vehicle for an in-depth investigation into the history of printmaking during the Great Depression in the United States. As a body of prints created during the first period of significant government support for the arts, the Trevey Collection is of value to students and scholars across numerous disciplines, including art history, American history, race and gender studies, and economic history. In its inaugural exhibition at the Museum, works from the Trevey Collection were grouped around several themes: realistic urban dramas countered by idealized country settings, women in the world, men in industry, couples and lovers, old boys’ clubs, and the preoccupation with body image as rendered in scenes of sports and medicine. At the center of these thematic groupings, one finds in the Trevey Collection numerous images of African-American life. In their treatment of the African-American experience, the prints vacillate between a growing yet complicated acknowledgment of the hardships of racism and stereotyped imagery reflective of the limited white perceptions of black realities. “Prints…are the most democratic form of pictorial art,” wrote the organizers of the print section at the New York World’s Fair in 1939. The Trevey Collection of American realist prints exemplifies this statement through its diverse depictions of rural and urban, black and white, male and female, empowered and impoverished. Ken Trevey was a television screenwriter and his interest in stories is felt clearly in these prints.

Collection Items

BENTON, Thomas Hart
Lithograph

AVERY, Milton
Child Cutting

BACON, Peggy
Teasing the Cat

BACON, Peggy
The Bellow's Class

BACON, Peggy
Close Quarters

BACON, Peggy
Pleading for the Oppressed

BACON, Peggy
The Spirit of Rain

BARLOW, Lou
Cutting Ice

BARLOW, Lou
Gourmet Shop

BEAL, Gifford
Bareback Act, Old Hippodrome

BELL, Cecil C.
East River Swimming

BELLOWS, George
Benediction in Georgia

BELLOWS, George
Business Men's Baths

BELLOWS, George
The Law is Too Slow

BELLOWS, George
Wedding

BENTON, Thomas Hart
Strike (Mine Strike)

BENTON, Thomas Hart
Cradling Wheat

BENTON, Thomas Hart
Down the River

BENTON, Thomas Hart
Self Portrait

BISHOP, Isabel
Entrance to Union Square

BISHOP, Isabel
Students on the Steps

BISHOP, Isabel
Interlude

BISHOP, Isabel
Snack Bar

BRODSKY, Harry
The Bar

BRUSSEL-SMITH, Bernard
Sailor and His Girl

CADMUS, Paul
YMCA Locker Room

CADMUS, Paul
Two Boys on the Beach #1

CURRY, John Steuart
Holy Rollers

CURRY, John Steuart
The Missed Leap

CURRY, John Steuart
Mississippi Noah

CURRY, John Steuart
The Fugitive

DE MARTELLY, John Stockton
Looking at Sunshine

DE MARTELLY, John Stockton
Make Hay While the Sun Shines

DIEBENKORN, Richard
Untitled #3 from 41 Etching Drypoints

DOHANOS, Steven
State Fair

DWIGHT, Mabel
The Brothers - Monkey House

DWIGHT, Mabel
Children's Clinic

DWIGHT, Mabel
Farm Yard

EVERGOOD, Philip
Sorrowing Farmers

EICHENBERG, Fritz
City Lights

The Aquarium

EICHENBERG, Fritz
The Steps

EICHENBERG, Fritz
The Subway

FREEMAN, Don
Automat Aristocrat

FREEMAN, Don
Box Office

FREEMAN, Don
Casting for Character

FREEMAN, Don
On the Fly Rail

FREEMAN, Don
Plights of Stardom

FREEMAN, Don
Deep in Hollywood

FRIEDLANDER, Isac
Diversion

Arm Scissors

GOLINKIN, Joseph
Set 'Em Up

GORSLINE, Douglas
Invitation to the Lindy Hop

GORSLINE, Douglas
Express Stop

HAUPERS, Clement
Hot Dog Counter

HAUPERS, Clement
Shore Leave

HIRSCH, Joseph
The Confidence

HIRSCH, Joseph
The Kiss

HIRSCH, Joseph
Man and Beast

HIRSCH, Joseph
Melancholy

HOFFMAN, Irwin
Drilling in Ore

HOFFMAN, Irwin
African Golfers

HOFFMAN, Irwin
Lace Makers

HOFFMAN, Irwin
The Stoker

HURD, Peter
Sermon from "Revelations"

KENT, Rockwell
Mala (Danseuse)

LANDACRE, Paul
A Woman

LEIGHTON, Clare
Threshing

LEWIS, Martin
Ice Cream Cones

LEWIS, Martin
Arc Welders

LIMBACH, Russell
Reviewing Stand

LOCKE, Charles W.
Hole in the Wall

LOCKE, Charles W.
Intermission

LOZOWICK, Louis
Loading

MARKHAM, Kyra
Penny, Lady?

MARSH, Reginald
Bread Line - No One Has Starved

MARSH, Reginald
Flying Concellos

MAZUR, Michael Burton
Closed Ward no. 12

MESSICK, Ben
Heavy Load

MESSICK, Ben
B Girls at Work

MILLER, Kenneth Hayes
Leaving the Shop

MILLER, Kenneth Hayes
Department Store

NESBITT, Jackson Lee
Old Man with Violin

RICO, DON
A Box at Minsky's

RIGGS, Robert
Entering the Ring

RIGGS, Robert
Afternoon at Max's

RIGGS, Robert
Children's Ward

RIGGS, Robert
Accident Ward

RIGGS, Robert
Ward Rounds
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