1929年,股票市场的崩溃把美国投入了苦难的大萧条。约翰·卡顿·达纳在当时写道:当他想到美国美术时,他想到的是“餐具、刀叉、桌布、家具、窗帘、壁纸、房屋、教堂、银行、办公建筑、火车站房、奖章、塑像、书籍杂志、招牌广告、钟表灯具、地毯挂毯、花边刺绣、丝绸彩带、花瓶烛台、铜版印刷品、雕板印刷品、素描以及油画。”意味深长的是,作为第一个 In 1929, the collapse of the stock market put the United States into a painful depression. John Caton Dana wrote at the time: When he thought of American art, he thought of “tableware, cutlery, tablecloths, furniture, curtains, wallpaper, houses, churches, banks, office buildings, train station buildings, Medallions, statues, books and magazines, signboards, watches and clocks, carpet tapestries, lace embroidery, silk ribbons, candlesticks, copperplate prints, engravings, sketches, and paintings. ”What’s meaningful is that as the first