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Rural Poverty

Land of Plenty

by Lucienne Bloch

Bloch created her woodcut, Land of Plenty, the same year she joined the Federal Art Project (FAP). 

A comment on the fate of poor farmers, the scene shows a poor, rural family of indeterminate race physically separated from the new electrical innovations and towering corn stalks by a barbed wire fence. 

The problem during the Depression was not a lack of food, but a lack of money – city dwellers could not afford to buy food from the farmers, forcing the farmers out of business despite their booming crops.

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Lucienne Bloch - Land of Plenty

Lucienne Bloch, Land of Plenty, 1935. Woodcut, 10 5/8 x 8 ¾ in.

Museum Purchase, Derby Fund, from the Philip J. and Suzanne Schiller Collection of American Social Commentary Art 1930-1970

Other Artwork Dealing With Rural Poverty...
Lucienne Bloch Harry Brodsky Jack Delano Merritt Mauzey

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Ida Abelman
Thomas Hart Benton
Lucienne Bloch
Harry Brodsky
Paul Cadmus
Francis Chapin
Jack Delano
Phillip Evergood
George Gilbert
Hugo Gellert
Joseph Hirsch
Irwin Hoffman
Morris Huberland
Merritt Mauzey
Elizabeth Olds
Walter Quirt
Moses Soyer
Raphael Soyer
Lynd Ward


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