American Art in the 20th Century
“I’m not much but I’m all I think about” 2010
“Game Denied” 2011
“Nevermore”
2015
“Ravens Discussing
Geometry”
2015
“Raven’s Moon” 2017
“Cincinnati Carnivals” 2020
American Art in the 20th Century
Session 1
BEFORE 1900
Late 1800’S American artists
who influenced early 1900’s art
Winslow Homer
James McNeil Whistler
John Singer Sargent
Frank Duveneck
William Merrit Chase
Winslow
Homer
(1836-1910)
c.1895
Frank
Duveneck
(1849-1919)
Private
Winslow Homer (1836-1910)
“Breezing Up (A Fair Wind)” 1873 National Gallery of Art, DC
Winslow Homer (1836-1910)
“Snap the Whip” 1874 Butler Inst. Of Art, Youngstown, OH
“Self Portrait”
1872
Detroit Institute of the
Arts
James
McNeill
Whistler
(1834-1903)
“Arrangement in Grey and Black” Whistler’s Mother
1872
Musée d’Orsay, Paris, FR
James McNeill Whistler
(1834-1903)
“Symphony in White. No. 1”
1862
National Gallery of Art
Washington, DC
James McNeill
Whistler
(1834_1903)
“Nocturne in Black and
Gold, The Falling
Rocket”
1872
Detroit Institute of the
Arts
James
McNeill
Whistler
(1834-1903)
James McNeill Whistler
(1834-1903)
"art for art's sake"
“Turkish Page”
1876
William Merritt
Chase
Cincinnati Art
Museum
“Self Portrait”
1883
William
Merritt
Chase
(1849-1916)
“Turkish Page” 1876
Frank Duveneck
Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Art
“Frank Duveneck Painting “Turkish Page”
William Merritt Chase 1876
“Keying Up”
1885
Pennsylvania
Academy of Fine
Art
William
Merritt
Chase
“Idle Hours – Shinnecock Hills” 1885 Amon Carter Museum, Ft Worth, TX
William Merritt Chase
“Bayberry Bushes - Homestead” 1883 Parrish Art Museum – Water Mill, NY
William Merritt Chase
John
Singer
Sargent
(1856-1906)
Self
Portrait
Met. NYC
John
Singer
Sargent
(1856-1926)
“President
Theodore Roosevelt”
1903
Roosevelt Room
White House
Washington, DC
John
Singer
Sargent
(1856-1926)
“Portrait of Madam X”
Virginie Amélie
Avegno Gautreau
(1883)
MET NYC
John Singer Sargent (1856-1926)
“Robert Lewis Stevenson” 1887 Taft Art Museum
John Singer Sargent (1856-1926)
“Muddy Alligators” 1906 Worcester Art Museum
American
Impressionists
John
Henry
Twachtman
(1853-1902)
John Henry Twachtman (1853-1902)
“Springtime” 1884 Cincinnati Art Museum
John Henry Twachtman (1853-1902)
“White Bridge” 1885 Metropolitan, NYC
Frederick
Childe
Hassam
(1859-1935)
Frederick
Childe
Hassam
(1859-1935)
“Avenue in the Rain”
1917
Oval Office White
House
Washington, DC
Frederick Childe Hassam (1859-1935)
“Avenue in the Rain” 1917 Oval Office White House Washington, DC
Frederick Childe Hassam (1859-1935)
“Celia Thaxter’s Garden, Isle of Shoals, Maine” 1890 Met, NYC
Frederick
Childe
Hassam
(1859-1935)
“The Sonata”
1883
MFA Houston, TX
Edward
Potthast
(1859-1935)
“Self Portrait”
1917
National Gallery of Art
Washington, DC
Edward Potthast (1859-1935)
“At the Seashore 3” Private
New York
School
Art Students
league
215 W 57th
St.
New York, NYC
Robert
Henri
(Robert Henry Cozad)
(1865-1929)
Robert
Henri
(Robert Henry Cozad)
(1865-1929)
Cozaddale, Ohio
Robert
Henri
(Robert Henry Cozad)
(1865-1929)
Robert
Henri
(1865-1929)
Robert
Henri
(1865-1929)
Madam Voclezca
as
“Salome”
Robert
Henri
(1865-1929)
Robert
Henri
(1865-1929)
Robert
Henri
(1865-1929)
Robert Henri (1865-1929)
Artists who trained under Henri at NYC School
Rockwell Kent (1882-1971)
Manuel Radinsky (Man Ray)
Leon Trotsky (1879-1940)
Hilda Belcher (1881-1963)
George Bellows (1882-1925)
Stuart Davis (1892-1964)
Morgan Russell (1886-1953)
Edward Hopper (1882-1967)
(1890-1976)
Robert Henri (1865-1929)
Artists who trained under Henri at NYC School
Rockwell Kent (1882-1971)
Manuel Radinsky (Man Ray)
Leon Trotsky (1879-1940)
Hilda Belcher (1881-1963)
George Bellows (1882-1925)
Stuart Davis (1892-1964)
Morgan Russell (1886-1953)
Edward Hopper (1882-1967)
(1890-1976)
Hilda Belcher
(1881-1963)
“Checkered Dress”
1907
Model
Georgia O’Keefe
Hilda Belcher
(1881-1963)
“Woman With
Cigarette”
1906
Robert
Henri
(1865-1929)
Ashcan
School
George Bellows (1882-1925)
George Luks (1867-1933)
John Sloan (1871-1951)
Robert Henri (1865-1929)
Edward Hopper (1882-1967
William Glackens (1870-1938)
Everett Shinn (1876-1953)
John
French
Sloan
(1871-1951)
“Himself”
1917
John French Sloan (1871-1951)
“Lafayette” 1906 Whitney Museum, NYC
John French Sloan (1871-1951)
“Wake of the Ferry” 1909 Phillips Collection Washington, DC
John French Sloan (1871-1951)
“McSorley’s Bar” 1912 Detroit Institute of the Arts
John French Sloan (1871-1951)
“Backyards-Greenwich Village” 1912 Whitney Museum, NYC
John French Sloan (1871-1951)
“South Beach Bathers” 1908 Walker Museum of Art Minneapolis
John French Sloan (1871-1951)
“Movies – 5 cents” 1912 Private Collection
William Glackens (1870-1938)
Albert Barnes (left) asked his friend William Glackens (right) to find "modern" art for him in Paris in 1911. With $20,000 from Barnes, he created the genesis of the Barnes Collection.
William Glackens (1870-1938)
“The Drive, Central Park” 1905 Cleveland Museum of Art
William Glackens (1870-1938)
“Skaters in Central Park” 1905 Barnes Collection, Philadelphia
George
Wesley
Bellows
(1882-1925)
George W
Bellows
(1882-1925)
“Steaming Streets”
1908
Santa Barbara M. of A.
George W. Bellows (1882-1925)
“Pennsylvania Excavation” 1904 National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC
George W. Bellows (1882-1925)
“Stag at Sharkey’s” 1922 Cleveland Museum of Art
George W. Bellows (1882-1925)
“Dempsey-Firpo” 1924 Whitney Museum of Art
George W. Bellows (1882-1925)
“Forty Two Kids” 1907
National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC
George W. Bellows (1882-1925)
“Germans Arrive” 1918 Whitney Museum of Art
Maurice
Prendergast
(1858-1924)
Maurice
Prendergast
(1858-1924)
“The Balloon”
1898
Met NYC
Maurice Prendergast (1858-1924)
“New England Village Afternoon” 1894 Private
Robert
Henri
(1865-1929)
“The Eight”
George Luks (1867-1933)
John Sloan (1871-1951)
Robert Henri (1865-1929)
Ernest Lawson (1873-1939)
Arthur Bowen Davis (1862-1928)
William Glackens (1870-1938)
Everett Shinn (1876-1953)
Maurice Prendergast (1858-1924)