NEW YORK, NY.- The stock market crash of 1929 initiated a chain of events that crippled the American art scene. As money from private patrons and museums evaporated, artists joined the nation’s staggering number of unemployed workers. The toils and triumphs of a wide range of individual artists and art organizations —documented in letters, photographs, journals, business records and oral-history interviews at the Smithsonian’s Archives of American Art—reveal how American artists survived against the odds. The exhibition “Hard Times, 1929 – 1939” will be on display through Sept. 3 in the Archives’ New York Research Center. The gallery is located on the lobby level of the UBS building at 1285 Avenue of the Americas, between 51st and 52nd streets. Beginning in 1933, government-sponsored art programs provided work relief for artists, employing them as muralists, painters, sculptors, art educato