Mervin Jules
United States, 1912-1994 Dust, 1933
Lithograph
Spencer Museum of Art: anonymous gift, 1998.0394
Jules was born in Baltimore, Maryland. He studied at the Baltimore City College, the Maryland Institute of Fine and Applied Arts, and with Thomas Hart Benton at the Art Students League in New York. He taught at Smith College and the City College of New York. He had a studio in Provincetown, Massachusetts. This dust bowl scene was done before the more serious dust storms and “black blizzards,” of 1934-35 or the infamous “Black Sunday,” a storm that hit Western Kansas on April 14, 1935.
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