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two must–see exhibitions | june 6–aug 23 The Eight and American Modernisms

Chronology 1907–57

Institutions (abbreviations in text) AAPS– American Association of CI– Carnegie Institute, MoMA– Museum of , PMA– Philadelphia Museum of Art Painters and Sculptors New York PC– Phillips Memorial Gallery, AIC– Art Institute of CGA– , NAD– National Academy of later , Washington, DC BF– , Washington, DC Design, New York Merion, Pennsylvania MMA– Metropolitan Museum of PAFA– Pennsylvania Academy of WMAA– Whitney Museum of American Art, New York BM– Art, New York the Fine Arts, Philadelphia

1907 1911 March December withdraws from NAD spring show after Davies, Glackens, Lawson, and present at colleagues’ works are rejected the first meeting of the AAPS; instrumental in organizing April International Exhibition of Modern Art, known as the Henri and friends first meet to plan independent show May 1912 “The Eight” first appears in New York Sun article Modern art collector Duncan Phillips acquires first Lawson , High Bridge—Early Moon (1910), and Albert C. 1908 Barnes purchases several of Lawson’s February 3–17 The Eight show at Macbeth Galleries: 63 paintings, January 7,000 visitors Davies elected AAPS president March 7–19 September The Eight show travels to PAFA Henri visits the Salon d’Automne and Gertrude Stein in Spring 1913 The artworks of The Eight and of Henri’s students hang February 17 together at NAD’s annual show Armory Show draws some 300,000 visitors to view 1,300 awarded NAD’s First Hallgarten Prize for Ice works; The Eight artists, except Shinn, participate; modified on the Hudson (unlocated), elected NAD associate member show travels to Chicago and European section to Boston September–December 1915 The Eight show travels to AIC, Toledo Museum of Art, and Panama Pacific Exposition, San Francisco: Davies exhibits 40 Detroit Museum of Art paintings; Lawson wins gold medal; Henri wins silver medal 1909 Prendergast has first retrospective at Carroll Galleries: January–May modern art collectors John Quinn, Barnes, and Ferdinand The Eight show travels to John Herron Art Institute, Howald buy works Indianapolis; Cincinnati Art Museum; Carnegie Institute; Bridgeport Public Library, Connecticut; and Newark Public 1916 Library, New Jersey Glackens elected first president of Society of Independent Artists; Prendergast and Sloan are officers 1910 Forum Exhibition of Modern American Painters, organized by April Alfred Stieglitz and Willard Huntington Wright, with Henri in Independent Artists Exhibition, organized by Henri and John honorary capacity French Sloan, includes Arthur B. Davies, , Lawson, , and

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700 North Art Museum Drive Milwaukee, WI 53202 414-224-3200 Fax: 414-271-7588 E-mail: [email protected] 1917 1931 Lawson elected associate member of NAD; awarded NAD’s Whitney Museum of American Art founded Inness Gold Medal for Hills at Innwood (1914; Columbus March Museum of Art) MMA organizes Henri memorial show Sloan elected president of Society of Independent Artists (serves until 1944) 1932 WMAA organizes first Biennial Exhibition of Contemporary 1921 American Painting MMA organizes its first modern art show,Loan Exhibition of MoMA organizes American Painting and Sculpture, Impressionist and Post-Impressionist Paintings, proposed by 1862–1932, including The Eight except Shinn Lizzie Bliss and Quinn March 1933 Overseas Exhibition of American Paintings, organized December 21 by Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney; travels to International Luks dies in New York Art Exhibition in Venice, London’s Grafton Galleries, and 1934 Whitney Studio (in November); includes Davies, Glackens, WMAA organizes Prendergast New York memorial Henri, Lawson, Luks, Prendergast, and Sloan retrospective 1923 1937 Henri’s The Art Spirit is published WMAA organizes New York Realists, 1900–1914, including 1924 Glackens, Henri, Lawson, Luks, Shinn, and Sloan Glackens awarded PAFA’s for Nude (1924, 1938 unlocated) May 22 February 1 Glackens dies at ’s Connecticut home Prendergast dies December 1925 WMAA organizes Glackens memorial show; travels to Luks opens the George Luks School of Painting CI; versions to AIC, Los Angeles, Saint Louis, Louisville, Cleveland, Washington, DC, and Norfolk Fall AIC purchases Glackens’s At Mouquin’s (1905) 1939 Sloan’s autobiography, Gist of Art, is published 1926 April–October Cleveland Museum of Art organizes first Prendergast MMA organizes Life in America at 1939 World’s Fair memorial retrospective December 18 1927 Lawson dies in Florida April Davies solo show at John Herron Art Institute, Indianapolis 1942 Sloan elected to the American Academy of Arts and Letters 1928 Whitney Galleries founded, Studio Club disbands 1943 BM organizes retrospective of The Eight, catalogue October 28 introduction by Shinn Davies dies in Florence Shinn elected full member of NAD 1929 MoMA founded; Alfred H. Barr Jr., director 1951 September 8 PC and AIC organize Davies memorial show, opens at MMA Sloan dies in New York in 1930 Sloan elected to National Institute of Arts and Letters 1953 July 12 May 1 Henri dies in New York Shinn dies in New York December 1957 MoMA organizes Nineteen Living Americans, includes William Glackens and the Ashcan Group, an anecdotal history Lawson and Sloan of The Eight by Glackens’s son Ira, is published.

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