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Selling Art in the Age of Retail Expansion and Corporate Patronage: Associated American Artists and the American Art Market of the 1930s and 1940s

Washington, Tiffany ElenaCase Western Reserve University School of Graduate Studies2013

<p>This dissertation analyzes Associated American Artists, a business that sold American art at affordable prices through department stores, its own mail-order catalogues, and its own galleries. During the period of this study, 1934 to 1945, Associated American Artists’ founder, Reeves Lewenthal, …

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