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| | Depression-era Regionalism |
 | | As the Great Depression was a time of isolationist and protectionist policy and rhetoric, particularly Wood's brand of regionalism fit right in, providing, on the surface, a sanitized and hopeful view of America's heartland. |
 | | Curry tended towards representations of families surviving natural disaster, certainly a prevailing theme of the Depression years as the dustbowl and farm foreclosure drove the Midwest into an economic tailspin. |
 | | Grant Wood's most famous statement on his conversion, as it were, from European bohemianism to American regionalism spoke to a country in the midst of the Depression, hungering for reassurance and looking for validation of its own worth and staying power: |
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