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Radicals, Patriots & Artists of Conscience

Every Friday from Friday, October 02, 2009 through Saturday, January 02, 2010
Location: Swope Art Museum 25 South Seventh Street

The Swope collection is replete with work by activist artists; this exhibition identifies those artists participating in such causes as civil rights, workers rights, Women’s rights, the environment, the war effort and the peace movement. Many of these artists used their works of art to promote these causes, including: John Sloan who became the art editor for the socialist magazine The Masses, 1912-1917; James Henry Daugherty who designed recruitment posters for the American armed forces in WWI; and Ansel Adams who crusaded for the preservation of the same wilderness that he revealed through his photographs throughout his career.

For more information:
Swope Art Museum
Call: 812-238-1676
Visit: http://www.swope.org