Meanwhile back at the Whitney

Covid 19 has shut down virtually everything in the city so I thought I would return to The Whitney.  I have some more photos and more to say.
I think I made it plain in the last post that the inspiration for the artists' work was political.  It was to represent the glory of the common man and woman.

 These are excerpts from Eisenstein's film of a local wedding.  The headgear the villagers are wearing is from a sunken ship.  The containers listed them as children's clothing.  The villagers thought they were too pretty for children so they turned them into head ornaments.

This is a portrait of a worker by Marion Greenwood [1909-1970] of Brooklyn and Woodstock New York.  From 1932 to 1936 she lived in Mexico and studied with Rivera.  This is a detail from the Red Hook Housing Project commissioned by the Federal Art Project. Her work is in the public art collections of a dozen museums including the Smithsonian.
And on another floor of the Whitney in the exhibition 'Craft In Art' were these:

                                                                       embroidery