AMERICAN ART

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AMERICAN ART

• 1913-1950

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The Armory Show in 1913 was a major vehicle for
disseminating information about European artistic
developments in the United States.
35-32 Installation photo of the Armory Show, New
York National Guard's 69th Regiment, New York,
1913.
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Armory Show, 1913 American public's first
exposure to modem art Duchamp's Nude Descending
a Staircase was the most controversial and
misunderstood work. Shows the influence of Cubism
and sequential photography
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Ashcan School or The Eight Painted urban scenes
with focus on less respectable aspects Key
artists-John Sloan and George Bellows
35-31 JOHN SLOAN, Sixth Avenue and 30th Street,
1907, 1909. Oil on canvas
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EDWARD HOPPER, Nighthawks, 1942. Oil on canvas,
2' 6" x 4' 8 11/16". The Art Institute of
Chicago, loneliness of modern life
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ALFRED STIEGLITZ, The Steerage, 1907 (print
1915). Photogravure (on tissue), Exhibited
avant-garde art in his 291 Gallery Photographed
contemporary life without altering the images.
For an example, see The Steerage black and white
images no color
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35-38 GEORGIA O'KEEFFE, New York, Night, 1929.
Oil on canvas Precisionism Portray
industrialized America in the 1920s Basic lines
and streamlined shapes Georgia O'Keeffe's
cityscapes
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Regionalism Rural scenes during the 1920s and
1930s
DOROTHEA LANGE, Migrant Mother, Nipomo Valley,
1935. Dorothea Lange-famous Depression
photographer
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THOMAS HART BENTON, Pioneer Days and Early
Settlers, State Capitol, Jefferson City, 1936.
Mural. Thomas Hart Benton-paintings of Mid-West
country folk
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GRANT WOOD, American Gothic, 1930. Oil on
beaverboard Grant Wood was a Regionalist who
painted scenes of rural life America Grant
Wood's painting American Gothic, set in rural
Iowa, became an American icon.
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African- American Artists Jacob Lawrence-The
Migration of the Negro series Romare
Bearden-best known for collages Aaron
Douglas-key member of Harlem Renaissance
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JACOB LAWRENCE, No. 49 from The Migration of the
Negro, 1940-1941. Tempera on masonite, The
subject of Jacob Lawrence's series of paintings
The Migration of the Negro is the experiences of
black people migrating North from the southern
United States. No. 49 of the series shows the
discrimination and degradation suffered by
African Americans
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AARON DOUGLAS, Noah's Ark, ca. 1927. Oil on
masonite A Harlem renaissance artistIn Noah's
Ark, Aaron Douglas incorporated motifs from
African sculpture into a Cubist composition of
transparent angular planes.