14 April 1939. The classic novel Grapes of Wrath, by John Steinbeck was first published in the USA. It’s set in the Great Depression, focusing on the poor Joad farming family struggling with economic hardship. The novel helped Steinbeck to win the Nobel Prize in 1962.

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Good morning - I hope you have a fine Easter Weekend lined up - I'm starting with 'Cuckmere Haven', Eric Ravilious, watercolour, 1939.
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'Lullington Church', James Bateman, oil on canvas, 1939.

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Jewish artist Eva Frankfurther was born on 10 February 1930 in Dahlem, Berlin. Her mother henriette, diagnosed as suffering from cancer during her pregnancy, died 18 months later. Her family fled to London in 1939. https://t.co/PBMjJTzDVa

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" Jewish Women " , 1912

By Goncharova, Natalia (1881-1962), born in Nagaevo village near Tula, Russia...She moved to Paris in 1921 where she designed a number of stage sets of Sergei Diaghilev's Ballets Russes. She became a French citizen in 1939..

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After Walt and Roy Disney purchased land in Burbank, California to build a new studio, Kem Weber was hired to design the buildings and furniture for the facility. He created the now-famous animator’s desk seen in this rendering, circa 1939. (1/2)

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Gradiva ~ a work created by Masson based on the essay of Sigmund Freud "Delirium and Dreams" of Gradiva "Jensen" Surrealists perceived Gradiva as an ideal woman, able to reconcile creation and destruction, life and death, realistic and surreal

"Gradiva". 1939. Andre Masson.

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Bucky, Valentine's Day 1939.

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The American League Against War and Fascism was an initiative of the CPUSA, but its membership included members of other left-wing groups, trade unions, and African American civic organizations. It published a monthly magazine from 1933 to 1939. Both covers by William Gropper.

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Arthur Rackham.
(British book illustrator)
1867-1939.
Illustration A Christmas Carol 2, 1915.
Illustration published in 'A Christmas Carol', Philadelphia. J.B. Lippincott Co., 1915

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The other half of what was a double-page spread: The typical Christmas card of tomorrow" We don't think it ever caught on! PUNCH cartoon Pont 1939. https://t.co/3y24KR2eff

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22 December 1939. First flight of the Caproni Ca.313. (Prototype MM.402). Italian twin-engine reconnaissance bomber, development of the Ca.310.

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15 December 1939. First flight of the Kimura HK-1. Japanese glider prototype to investigate the possibilities of tailless aircraft. It was a single-seat design with an open cockpit, swept wings, and a single tail fin.

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Canis Major - Illustration
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Good morning - I hope you slept like well sated stoats. I'm starting with four hill figures by Ravilious. Top left to bottom left: The Long Man of Wilmington, The Cerne Abbas Giant, The Westbury Horse, and The Vale of the White Horse. All watercolur, all 1939.

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