American Art History (Painting; 1900-1940)

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Robert Henri

West 57th Street, NY

• Student of Eakins (Science, accuracy)
  
• Gritty Urban scene
  

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John Sloan

Fifth Avenue Critics

• display of consumption
  
• satirical, political
  

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John Sloan

McSorley's Bar

• Social reality
  

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George Luks

Hester Street

• Social reality
  

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George Bellows

Both Members of this Club

• one black/one white
  
• rough scene/rough painting
  
• ghoulish, masklike audience
  

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Edward Hopper

Eleven AM

• Lonely, cold environment
  
• Commercial art vibes
  

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Edward Hopper

Nighthawks

• Connection to film making
  

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Archibald Motley

Black Belt

• active in the interracial marriage scene
  
• double conscientiousness
  

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Curry

Tornado Over Kansas

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Grant Wood

American Gothic

• Carpenter Gothic
  
• Repeated shapes
  
• Realness of farmlife
  

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Stanton Wright

Abstraction in Spectrum

• synchronists

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Max Weber

Rush Hour

• Goes through & internalizes European movements
  
• Extension of Cubism; futurism
  

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Arthur Dove

Sunrise No. 3

• Has some recognizable connection to subject but not much
  

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Marsden Hartley

Portrait of a German Officer

• new kind of portrait
  
• tribute to a lover
  

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Georgia O'Keeffe

Black Iris

• Abstract but in touch
  
• vagina
  

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Joseph Stella

Battle of Lights, Coney Island

• futurism
  
• dizzying array, suggests movement
  

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Joseph Stella

Brooklyn Bridge

• Futurism
  

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Charles Demuth

I Saw The Figure 5 in Gold

• tribute to poet William Carlos Williams
• incorporates text into painting

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Charles Sheeler

American Landscape

• About moving forward/machines
  

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Ben Shahn

The Passion of Sacco and Vanzetti

• political