Black-Seitz, Schuyler

Schuyler Black-Seitz is a PhD Candidate at The Ohio State University specializing in American painting from the 1930s to the 1950s. His dissertation, “Painting in Crisis: Precisionism During the New Deal and World War II, 1932–1945,” considers precisionism during the Great Depression, the New Deal, and World War II focusing on canonical precisionists like Charles Sheeler, Niles Spencer, and Louis Lozowick, as well as lesser-studied artists such as Francis Criss, Ralston Crawford, and George Ault.