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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 James McNeill Whistler
(1834-1903)
“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)
"art for art's sake" “Turkish Page”
1876
William Merritt Chase
Cincinnati Art Museum William Merritt Chase
(1849-1916)
“Self Portrait” 1883 “Turkish Page” 1876 Frank Duveneck Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Art “Frank Duveneck Painting “Turkish Page” William Merritt Chase 1876 William Merritt Chase
“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 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
(1865-1929)
(Robert Henry Cozad) Robert Henri
(1865-1929)
(Robert Henry Cozad)
Cozaddale, Ohio Robert Henri
(1865-1929)
(Robert Henry Cozad) 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
George Bellows (1882-1925) Rockwell Kent (1882-1971)
Stuart Davis (1892-1964) Manuel Radinsky (Man Ray) (1890-1976)
Morgan Russell (1886-1953) Leon Trotsky (1879-1940)
Edward Hopper (1882-1967) Hilda Belcher (1881-1963) Robert Henri (1865-1929)
Artists who trained under Henri at NYC School
George Bellows (1882-1925) Rockwell Kent (1882-1971)
Stuart Davis (1892-1964) Manuel Radinsky (Man Ray) (1890-1976)
Morgan Russell (1886-1953) Leon Trotsky (1879-1940)
Edward Hopper (1882-1967) Hilda Belcher (1881-1963) Hilda Belcher (1881-1963)
“Checkered Dress” 1907
Model
Georgia O’Keefe Hilda Belcher (1881-1963)
“Woman With Cigarette” 1906 George Bellows (1882-1925) Robert Henri George Luks (1867-1933) (1865-1929)
John Sloan (1871-1951)
Robert Henri (1865-1929) Ashcan Edward Hopper (1882-1967 School 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 George Luks (1867-1933)
John Sloan (1871-1951)
Robert Henri (1865-1929) Robert Henri
Ernest Lawson (1873-1939) (1865-1929)
Arthur Bowen Davis (1862-1928)
William Glackens (1870-1938) “The Eight” Everett Shinn (1876-1953)
Maurice Prendergast (1858-1924)