Art Front. Vol. 2 No. 3. February, 1936.

Contents: National Organization A Letter from West, Art Front – For a Permanent Art Project – Congress Against War and Fascism – July 1st 1936 – ‘Our’ Municipal Art Gallery and Center – Greetings to the Artists Congress, Self Government and the Municipal Art Center, Brook and His Tradition by Jacob Kainen, American Artists’ Congress by Charmion von Weigand, The Union Show by Charles Humbolet, The Frick Formula by Clarence Weinstock, Exhibitions, ‘The Ten’ by Herbert Lawrence, The Pictures and Puppets of Yosl Cutler by Louis Bunin.

Art Front was published by the Artists Union in New York between November 1934 and December 1937. Its roots were with the Artists Committee of Action formed to defend Diego Rivera’s Man at the Crossroads mural soon to be destroyed by Nelson Rockefeller. Herman Baron, director of the American Contemporary Art gallery, was managing editor in collaboration with the Artists Union in a project largely politically aligned with the Communist Party USA.. An editorial committee of sixteen with eight from each group serving. Those from the Artists Committee of Action were Hugo Gellert, Stuart Davis, Zoltan Hecht, Lionel S. Reiss, Hilda Abel, Harold Baumbach, Abraham Harriton, Rosa Pringle and Jennings Tofel, while those from the Artists Union were Boris Gorelick, Katherine Gridley, Ethel Olenikov, Robert Jonas, Kruckman, Michael Loew, C. Mactarian and Max Spivak.

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