| JOHN OPPER DESCRIBED THE 1930S AS A "GREAT GESTATION PERIOD" FOR HIS
ART. "I thought the Thirties was a very vital time for American art . .
. With the WPA, you got together whether it was the [Artists'] Union or
the [American Artists'] Congress or whether it was a bar . . . and you
talked about art, and you heard about important artists, and you began
to live art."[1] But Opper also remembered the thirties as a period of
breakdown in the vitality of American art; "we became aware that a
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