West Baton Rouge Museum Podcast

Presented by Claudia Kheel, Southern Regional Art Historian, Art Consultant for Neal Auction Company, and Adjunct Professor at Tulane and Louisiana State Universities. Ms. Kheel will discuss the importance of Lange’s Depression-era work and that of her contemporaries as well as Lange’s collaboration with the New Deal's Farm Security Administration (FSA). Lange’s Depression-era work served in a real way to alleviate the suffering of the very people she chronicled: it raised public awareness of the dire need for federal assistance around the country, and helped convince Congress to provide it.