Culture

Art from The New Masses. Vol. 4 No. 8. January, 1929. Art by Diego Rivera, William Seigel, Art Young, William Gropper, Gan Kolski,, Stuart Davis, Hugo Gellert, Xavier Guerrero, and Louis Lozowick. Art from The New Masses. Vol. 4 No. 8. January, 1929. The New Masses was the continuation of Workers Monthly which began publishing in 1924 as a merger of the ‘Liberator’, the Trade Union Educational League magazine ‘Labor Herald’, and Friends of Soviet Russia’s monthly ‘Soviet Russia Pictorial’ as an explicitly Communist Party publication, but drawing in a wide range of contributors and sympathizers. In 1927 Workers Monthly ceased and The New Masses began. A major left cultural magazine of the late 1920s to early 1940s, the early editors of The New Masses included Hugo Gellert, John...