The 1920s through 1940s were decades of dramatic economic and cultural change in the United States--from the Roaring Twenties to the Great Depression to the New Deal. The period saw substantial growth in printing in America, as the government instituted the Works Progress Administration, aiming to put unemployed Americans back to work.

This exhibition presented 38 prints, lithographs, wood engravings, etchings, and wood-block prints, made between the mid-1920s and the mid-1940s which illustrated a broad range of popular and evocative subject matter through scenes from everyday life, both urban and rural.