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John Dos Passos And His World, University Of Richmond Museums
John Dos Passos And His World, University Of Richmond Museums
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John Dos Passos and His World
September 26 to December 07, 2003
Marsh Art Gallery, University of Richmond Museums
Introduction
One of America's most innovative writers, John Dos Passos (1896-1970) also completed more than four hundred paintings and drawings that chronicle his life's journeys. In fifty years, Dos Passos wrote forty-two literary works, and his novels Manhattan Transfer (1925) and the trilogy U.S.A. (published together in 1938) provide a panoramic social history of the first three decades of the twentieth century. Similarly, his paintings captured the times in which he lived and addressed the world around him, in landscapes from …