AMERICAN ARTAMERICAN ART

1913-19501913-1950

35-32: Installation photo of the Armory Show, New York National Guard's 69th Regiment, New York, 1913.

The Armory Show in 1913 was a major vehicle for disseminating information about European artistic developments in the United States.

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

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

EDWARD HOPPER, Nighthawks, 1942. Oil on canvas, 2' 6" x 4' 8 11/16". The Art Institute of Chicago,

loneliness of modern life

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

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

Regionalism Rural scenes during the 1920s and 1930s

DOROTHEA LANGE, Migrant Mother, Nipomo Valley, 1935. Dorothea Lange-famous Depression photographer

THOMAS HART BENTON, Pioneer Days and Early Settlers, State Capitol, Jefferson City, 1936. Mural.

Thomas Hart Benton-paintings of Mid-West country folk

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.

African- American ArtistsJacob Lawrence-The Migration of the Negro series Romare Bearden-best known for collages Aaron Douglas-key member of Harlem

Renaissance

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

AARON DOUGLAS, Noah's Ark, ca. 1927. Oil on masonite

A Harlem renaissance artist:In Noah's Ark, Aaron Douglas incorporated motifs from African sculpture into a Cubist composition of transparent angular planes.