Trouble in Frisco
1938 · Oil on canvas
30 x 36" (76.2 x 91.4 cm)
Museum of Modern Art
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Fletcher Martin
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PrintmakingRealismSocial Realism
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None documented
3
Institutional Exhibitions
2
Works in Collection
6
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- • Realism
- • Social Realism
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Selected Institutional Exhibitions
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Americans 1942: 18 Artists from 9 States
Museum of Modern Art, New York
1942
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Four American Traveling Exhibitions
Museum of Modern Art, New York
1940
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Painting, Sculpture, Prints
Museum of Modern Art, New York
1939
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Fletcher Martin was an American painter and printmaker working in oil and lithography, whose figurative compositions centered on workers and ordinary people rendered with the directness of American social realism. Active in the postwar period, his work engaged explicitly with labor and social themes, eschewing abstraction in favor of observed human particularity. Martin's approach reflected a commitment to accessible, figuratively grounded art addressing contemporary American life.
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Museum of Modern Art
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