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name: Langley Howard
vorname: John
wikidata-repräsentation: Q20887178
biografische angaben: 1902—1999. American painter and muralist.
Focused his attention in the 1930s on the region around Monterey, California – Steinbeck country – where he depicted Depression-era realities and argued through his work for social change.
One of the artists commissioned in 1933 to paint the famed Coit Tower murals – selecting California industrial scenes as his topic. His murals were so politically charged – one, for example, showing an unemployed worker reading a Marxist newspaper – that the Tower’s opening was delayed at a time when longshoremen struck at the port and artists slept on the tower steps to prevent the murals’ defacement.
His later work focused on landscape painting, creating works that one reviewer said “evoke” force some viewers find poetic, others experience as spiritual, and others catalogue under the rubric Magic Realism.