American Art - UC

American Art in the 20th Century

American Art in the 20th Century

Session 3

“American Precisionism”

Morton

Schamberg

(1881-1918)

Philadelphia

Museum of Art

Self Portrait

Morton

Schamberg

(1887-1986)

Columbus Museum of Art

Columbus, OH

“Telephone”

1915

Morton

Schamberg

(1887-1986)

Metropolitan Museum of

Art

New York, NY

“God”

1916

CHARLES

SHEELER

(1883-1965)

CHARLES SHEELER (1883-1965)

“Stacks in Celebration” 1930 Dayton Art Institute


“American Landscape” 1930 MOMA


“River Rouge” 1932 Detroit M. A.


“Classic Landscape” 1931

National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC

CHARLES

SHEELER

(1883-1965)

“Church St. El” 1920 Cleveland Museum of Art

CHARLES

SHEELER

(1883-1965)

“Skyscrapers”

1922

National Gallery of Art

Washington DC

Paul

Strand

(1883-1965)

“Manhatta”

1921

Movie

MOMA

Paul Strand 1890-1976

Wall Street 1915


“Skyscrapers” 1922 Sheeler/Strand

Charles Demuth

(1883-1935)

Charles Demuth (1883-1935)

“Sail in Two Movements” 1919

Crystal Bridges A. M. Bentonville, AK

Charles Demuth

(1883-1935)

“Aucassin and

Nicolette”

1921

Columbus, OH A. M.

Charles Demuth

(1883-1935)

“My Egypt”

1927

Whitney Art Museum

NYC

Charles Demuth

(1883-1935)

“I Saw the Figure 5

in Gold”

1928

Met, NYC

Georgia

O’Keeffe

(1887-1986)

Georgia

O’Keeffe

(1887-1986)

Thyssen-Bornemisza Museo

Madrid, SP

“New York Street

with Moon”

1925

Georgia

O’Keeffe

“Radiator Building

at Night NYC”

1924

Crystal Bridges

Art Museum

Bentonville, AR

(1887-1986)

Georgia O’Keeffe (1887-1986)

“East River from 30th

Story of the Shelton Hotel”

1926

MET, NYC

American

Regionalists

Grant Wood

(1891-1942)

Grant

Wood

(1891-1942)

‘American Gothic’

1930

Art Institute

Chicago

Grant Wood (1891-1942)

‘Young Corn’ 1931 Cedar Rapids A.M.


‘Daughters of the Revolution’ 1932 Cincinnati A.M.


‘Mid Night Ride of Paul Revere’ 1934 Met NYC

Grant

Wood

(1891-1942)

‘Spring in Town’

1941

Swope Art Museum

Terre Haute, IN

Rockwell

Kent

(1882-1971)

Rockwell Kent (1882-1971)

“Endless Energy for Limitless Future”1932 Dayton Art Insitute


“Untitled (Greenland)” 1932 Farnsworth Art Museum, Rockland, ME


“Iceberg and Sledge Dogs” 1935 Private

Sold 2019 $1mm


Thomas

Hart

Benton

(1889-1975)

Thomas Hart Benton (1889-1975)

‘City Activities with Dance Hall’ 1929 MET. NYC


“Achelous & Hercules” 1947

Smithsonian, Washington, DC


‘Source of Country Music’ 1974 CMHF Nashville, TN


John

Steuart

Curry

(1897-1946)

Thomas Hart Benton (1889-1975)John Steuart Curry (1897-1946)

“Baptism in Kansas” (1928) Whitney Museum of American Art, NYC

Thomas Hart Benton (1889-1975)John Steuart Curry (1897-1946)

“Tornado Over Kansas” (1929) Muskegon Museum of Art

Edward

Hopper

(1882-1967)

Edward Hopper (1882-1967)

‘Night Hawks’ 1942 A. I. Chicago


‘Sunday Morning’ 1930 Whitney, NYC


‘New York Movie’ 1939 MOMA, NYC


‘Chop Suey’ 1929 Private –Sold $92M 2018


‘Sun on Prospect Street ’ 1934 Cincinnati Art Museum


‘Prospect Street ’ Gloucester, MA 1974


‘High Noon’ 1949 Dayton Art Institute


“Room by the Sea” 1951 Private


“Upstate River” 1935 Peabody-Essex M.A.

Early American

Abstract Art

Stuart Davis

(1894-1964)

Stuart Davis

(1894-1964)

“Lucky Strike”

1921

MOMA, NYC

Stuart Davis (1894-1964)

“Egg Beater #1” 1927 Whitney, NYC


“Egg Beater #4” 1928 Phillips Collection


‘Hot Still Life for Six Colors – 7th

Avenue Style’ 1940 Boston MFA


“Swing Landscape” 1938 Indiana University A.M.


‘

Duke Ellington 1943

It don't mean a thing, if it ain't got that swing,

Doo-ah, doo-ah, doo-ah, doo-ah, doo-ah, doo-ah….

Stuart Davis

(1894-1964)

“OWH” in San Paö”

1951

Whitney, NYC

Arthur Dove

(1880-1946)

Arthur Dove (1880-1946)

“Nature Symbolized” 1911 MOMA


“Me and the Moon” 1937 Phillips Collection


“That Red One” 1944 Boston MFA

Arshile

Gorky

(1904-1948)

Arshile

Gorky

(1904-1948)

“Artist and his

Mother”

Two versions

1926/1936

Whitney, NYC

National

Gallery

Washington, DC

Arshile Gorky (1904-1948)

“Water of the Flowery Mill” 1944 Met NYC


“Untitled, Summer” 1944 Guggenheim NYC


“The Liver is the Cocks Comb’ 1944 Albright-Knox Buffalo, NY


“Plough and the Song” 1945 Allen Art Museum, Oberlin, OH


“Virginia Landscape” 1945 Cincinnati Art Museum

Milton

Avery 1885-1965

Duncan Phillips (1886-1966)

Marjorie Acker Phillips (1895-1985)

Art Collector

“Gaspe Bay” 1940 Smithsonian Washington, DC

Milton Avery 1885-1965

“Green Sea” 1954 Met. NYC



“Gaspe Landscape” 1950 Neuberger Marie

Roy Neuberger (1903-2007)

Art Collector

Charles

Burchfield

(1893-1967)

Charles Burchfield

‘’Heat Waves in a Swamp” 1946 Whitney Museum of American Art.

Charles Burchfield

“Orion in Winter” 1962 Museo Thyssen, Madrid

Charles Burchfield

“Black Iron” 1935 Private

Joseph

Cornell

(1903-1972)

Joseph Cornell

(1903-1972)

“UNTITLED”

(Habitat Group for a

Shooting Gallery)

1943

Des Moines A. M.

Joseph

Cornell

(1903-1972)

“UNTITLED”

(Hotel Eden)

1945

N. G.

Ottawa

Canada

Joseph

Cornell

(1903-1972)

“Penny Arcade

with

Lauren Bacall”

1952

Auction 2016

$6.7 MM

Private

Joseph

Cornell

(1903-1972)

“UNTITLED”

1960

private.

Sold 2019 at

Christies for

$7,165,000

Joseph Cornell and Yayoi Kusama

1970

Yayoi Kusama (b.1929)

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