In March of 1933, when the nation was seized by an unprecedented economic depression, art dealer Reeves Lewenthal formed the Associated American Artists organization. His plan was to make fine art prints affordable to every American. Members of the AAA produced prints for the public, and Lewenthal used department stores and mail-order catalogues to promote the editions. Individual prints often cost as little as five dollars. The association distributed works by a wide array of American artists, including Mabel Dwight, Doris Lee, Reginald Marsh, and Peggy Bacon, but the AAA is most strongly associated with the Regionalist painters John Steuart Curry, Thomas Hart Benton, and Grant Wood. (Information from Associated American Artists: Art by Subscription, Naples Museum of Art, 2010) The Associated American Artists Records are housed at Syracuse University Libraries.
