Final Module Flashcards
Tradition, 1916
Kenyon Cox
Represents traditional ideas of the Italian renaissance. Conservative, academic style of the New York academy.
The Ragpicker, 1911
Sculpture
Abastenia St. Leger Eberle,
Similar in themes to Ashcan
woman searching through the garbage. Art as a social function. She produced work for women’s suffrage in 1915 McBeth galleries, NYC. Her subjects: Working-class immigrants in NY.
In the Elevated, 1916
Theresa Bernstein,
This received the National Arts Club prize winner. She is similar in themes to AshcanModern subject matter, expressive, urbanism, realist and expressionist styles, social issues. Mural painter for US gov. during the depression. Also contributed to the sufferance show with Ragpicker.
Alfred Stieglitz, 1902
Gertrude Käsebier
Gum bichromate method, allowing manipulation resulting in a painterly style.
Started the Romantic Urban Realism movement. They rebelled against the traditional and conservative style and subject matter of the academy. Painting the life you knew.
The Eight
Members were Robert Henri, Everett Shinn, John Sloan, Arthur B. Davies, Ernest Lawson, Maurice Prendergast, George Luks, and William J. Glackens. Landmark Exhibition in 1908 at McBeth galleries in NY.
An artistic movement in the United States during the late 19th-early 20th century that is best known for works portraying scenes of daily life in New York, often in the city’s poorer neighborhoods.
Ashcan School
He founded Photo-Secession and was married to Georgia O’Keeffe.
Alfred Stieglitz
This was a group of photographers
Photo-Secession
This is a photography style
Pictorialism
Stieglitz’s gallery, showing photography, american and european modernist artwork.
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Blue Lines, 1916
Georgia O’Keeffe
Asian art influenes, modernist style, New York.
Cow’s Skull Red, White and Blue, 1931
Georgia O’Keeffe
New Mexico, example of this new style of her work. Taos. Growing trend in art for regional scenes, going out beyond the urban centers. Cultural nationalism - the cow skull representing enduring nature of American.
*A trend in looking to idetifying what is unique about America, authoring the “great American play, book, etc.” O’Keeffe wondered what a great American painting would look like.
Cultural Nationalism
*Approach to art that is interested in uncovering social problems.
Urban scene painters
*Approach to art that is interested in lush landscapes
Regionalist painters
Luxembourg Gardens, 1908
Marguerite Zorach
Influenced by Matisse and fauvism styles.
A Village in India, 1911
Marguerite Zorach
An example of her paintings during a trip abroad.
Man Among Redwoods, 1912
Marguerite Zorach
An example from a trip to Sierra Nevada.
(who is ) in her 55th Street Apartment, 1913, with painted wall hanging in the background
Marguerite Zorach
New York City
Maine Islands, 1919
Marguerite Zorach
Tapestry painting, decorative embroidery. Summers would travel to Maine. Regional themes from those trips. Joy of Life from Mattise reference.
She wrote the Avant-guard opera Four Saints In Three Acts to which Stettheimer designed costumes.
Gertrude Stein
She also knew Zorach in Paris.
Nude Self-Portrait, c. 1915
Florine Stettheimer Between the wars, her work looked at upper-class life and a diary of her life. Decorative, Figurative, Stylized, richly colored, a nod to popular illustrations. Nude self-portraits by women are not typical.
Picnic at Bedford Hills, 1918
Florine Stettheimer
Pictorial, history painting genre painting, etc. Biographical. Theatrical. Marcel Duchamp is featured twice here (he’s the only male).
She is a detached observer. Also friends with Steiglitz.
Spring Sale at Bendel’s, 1921
Florine Stettheimer
Shopping, the frenzy of the dressing room, snagging bargains, human look at high fashion - jewel-like colors, privileged and luxury.
set for Four Saints In Three Acts, 1934
Florine Stettheimer
Opened in Connecticut.
Harlem renaissance going in parallel. All-black cast. Choral director: Eva Jessie. Sounds of works over the story. Virgil Thompson score.
Stettheimer Doll House, 1916-1935, Museum of the City of New York
Worked on with her sister
Classical facade
Lux, fashion, and style of NY high society, the finest dollhouse in the world. John Noble Toy Collector is shown here working on the installation. Museum of the City of New York.
Stettheimer Doll House, Lower terrace
Steittheimar discussues art with Henry McBride
William Zorach’s bronze mother and child on left
Gaston Lachaise’s alabaster female nude
Stettheimer Doll House, Ballroom
Gaston Lachaise chats with Marcel Duchamp. Virgil Thompson plays piano for Fania Marinoff. -Known for its reproduction in miniatures of famous paintings, shown in this room.
Abstract Portrait of Marcel Duchamp, 1918
Katherine Dreier
With Duchamp and Man Ray, Society of Independent artists and Société Anonyme, a collection donated to Yale University.
This art movement rejected reason and logic, prizing nonsense, irrationality, and intuition. It shows up differently in the US than it does in Europe - humor, and quirkiness but without the gravity or bitterness of those in EU affected by WWI.
Dada
Mina Loy, 1920
Man Ray
Mina is a Dada poet. She wears a thermometer as an earring.
Baroness Elsa Von Freytag-Loringhoven, Photograph
Unknown photographer
Provocative
America’s first performance artist & poet.
Dressed or undressed, tragic and ridiculous, the little review says she loves and lives Dada. Body as a living work of art.
Who formed the Ashcan School? And who were the artists associated with it?
The eight
Theresa Bernstein
Detail from a letter to Tristan Tzara, postmarked June 8, 1920, showing the Baroness Elsa Von Freytag-Loringhoven performing nude.
Man Ray
photo of a nude video he shot her her
“The baroness shaves her pubic hair” - Duchamp
Portrait of Marcel Duchamp, c. 1920
Baroness Elsa Von Freytag-Loringhoven
Found objects in a wine glass, ready-made, retexturized.
Marcel Duchamp’s Bed, 1917
Beatrice Wood
NY dada movement
this, after 17’ Blind Man’s Ball. Shows Mina Loy, Charles Demuth, Eileen D, Marcel and Beatrice
Pittsburgh, 1927
Precisionism
Elsie Driggs
Industrial forms, in smoke and haze, steel mill where her father worked. Jones & Laughlin. Modernist technique to urban technology.
Queensborough Bridge, 1927
Precisionism
Elsie Driggs,
Modern building. Future style lines. East River Bridge. NYC
This movement depicts subjects being machinery, industrial artefacts, architecture, manufacturing and manufactured objects and the act of building and built structures.
Precisionism
smooth, sharply defined painting
American artists in representational
primarily during the 1920s
This movement spanned the 1920’s, is named after a text by Alan Lock ‘the new negro’, centered in Harlem.
Harlem Renaissance
Visual arts
Theatre
Music
This …
Collectors
She was a Precisionist artist.
Elsie Driggs
Radiator Building at Night, 1927
Precisionism
Georgia O’Keeffe,
Midtown, Manhattan.
Symbol of modern american - skyscraper. this is her new york series. from the shelton hotel. Steiglitz name is in neon.
Les Fétiches, 1938
Harlem Renaissance
Lois Mailou Jones,
Howard Uni professor, support from Harmon foundation. Overlapping tribes mask. Strength and protection from her cultural heritage from racism. Emphasises rhythmic.
Stein’s life partner.
In 1933 she became famous after they co-authored an autobiography featuring her.
Alice B. Toklas
Paris
Famous Expat Author, Salon attracted international artists. Helped to define modernism in writing and art. Art collection included Cezanne, Picasso.
Gertrude Stein
Paris
Gertrude Stein and Alice B. Toklas, 1922
Man Ray
Gertrude Stein, and Etta Cone at a table in Fiesole, Italy, June 1903
Claribel Cone
Art collectors included works: Matisse Blue & Long Reclining Nude, Cezzane’s Bathers, Picasso. Left their collection to the Baltimore Museum of art.
Cone Sisters
Formed collections of european artworks with Stein.
Portrait of Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney, 1916
Robert Henri (of the eight/ashcan fame)
Whitney formed collections of American artists.
Titanic Memorial, 1931, Washington DC
Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney
Granit
Honors men who gave their lives for the children and women who were saved. Commissioned Women’s Titanic Association.
Artists on WPA, 1935
Moses Soyer
She led two lives, of an aristocrat and as a bohemian sculptor. Her studio became the first home of the Whitney Museum which she founded. Leading patron of American Art.
Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney
This museum was founded and directed by a woman. Focused on exhibiting living american artists.
Whitney Museum of American Art (1931)
She was the first director of the Whitney Museum of American Art.
Juliana Force
This museum, founded in 1929 by the efforts of Lilly Bliss, Abby Aldrich Rockefeller and Mary Quinn Sullivan. Directed by men.
Museum of Modern Art (1929)
Artists on WPA, 1935
Moses Soyer
Shared studio
3 women shown, extensive opportunities
White Angel Breadline, San Francisco, 1933
Dorothea Lange
First attempts at street photography. Soup kitchen The Angel is Lois Jordan who opened the kitchen. hopelessness.
Drought refugees from Abilene, TX, following crops, CA, August, 1936
Dorothea Lange
She was originally a portraitist of the wealthy first. An American Exodus. Documenting new migration. Drought refugees. Migratory labor.
Tractored Out, Childress County, TX, June 1938
Dorothea Lange
Documented growth of big agribusiness replacing tenant farming. Farm mechanization.
Migrant Mother, Nipomo, CA, 1936
Dorothea Lange
Iconic. Series of Florence Owen Thompson. 5 exposures. Despair, need.
This is a series of programs, public work projects, financial reforms, and regulations enacted by President Franklin D. Roosevelt in the United States between 1933 and 1939.
New Deal
To support the infrastructure and work programs that were enacted for the American people during the depression, Roosevelt established collective agencies, including arts programs, that were named this.
WPA
Works Progress Administration 35’-43’
Including post office mural. Gender bling competition process.
Hired Dorothea Lange & Marion Post Wolcott
Was prior the resettlement administration.
Farm Security Administration (FSA)
He wrote, Grapes of Wrath
Steinbeck
Dust bowl migration
The successor of the Farm Security Administration in between 42’-45’.
Office of War Information (OWI)
Coal Miner’s daughter carrying home can of kerosene to be used in oil lamps, Scott’s Run, West Virginia, 1938
Marion Post Wolcott
Freight train, grain elevators, wheat, great plains, Carter, Montana, 1941
Marion Post Wolcott
Man using outside stairway for “colored” to enter movie theatre, Belzoni, Mississippi, 1939
Marion Post Wolcott
Subway, 1934
painting
Lily Furedi
PWAP - funded this painting. Friendly interest, she looks at the riders.
Country Dance, Anson, TX, Post Office, 1941
Jeanne Magafan
Funded by the treasury dept. of painting and sculpture / section of fine arts 34’- 43’ - every state of the nation had a mural.
Artichoke Pickers, Santa Cruz, CA, Post Office, 1936
Henrietta Shore
Series of 4, others featuring limestone quarries, cabbage, fishing.
Flood Victims, Louisville, Kentucky, 1937
Margaret Bourke-White
No government support
Similar to lange and wolcott. published You have Seen their Faces .
first cover of Life magazine, November 23, 1936
Margaret Bourke-White
Notable photojournalist. This of Fort Pec Dam, MT.
This magazine published many of Margaret Bourke-White’s photo-essays.
Life magazine
Issued by Roosevelt after the bombing of Pearl Harbor ordering removal of all Japanese citizens to internment camps.
Executive Order No. 1066
Mochida Family Awaiting Evacuation Bus, 1942
Dorothea Lange
family going into internment. War Relocation Agency.
Citizen 13660 (1946)
Miné Okubo
One sketch in her book published by Columbia University Press. Interned at Topaz in Utah. Recorded in sketches. Portrays prejudice, domestic concentration camp. This is the # assigned to her family.
Japanese Americans here, many children.
Internment camps
We Can Do It! 1943
J. Howard Miller
for Westing House War Production Coordinating Community in Pennsylvania. This would have only been seen by the factory workers.
Women Worker, Kaiser Shipyard, Richmond, CA, c. 1943-44
Dorothea Lange
Hired by Office of War Information (OWI)
Heroine of government issued, morale building posters. Also a song.
Rosie the Riveter
Tool Production, Republic Drill and Tool Company, Chicago, Illinois, August 1942
Ann Rosener
hired by FSA and then OWI
Women’s changing roles.
Midwestern states and Cali. hidden, until online access. Filling essential jobs.
Lockheed Worker Working on the Fuselage of a P-38, 1944
Edna Reindel
Commissioned by Life Magazine, a series. 9 reproduced in color.
B-29 Bomber Leaving the Factory, 1942-1944
Laura Gilpin
Known for western landscapes, here, Kansas, worked for Boeing company. Air capital of the world.
The Bombing of St. Malo, August 1944, Vogue
Lee Miller
War correspondent, official war photographer for London Vogue. The first bombing to use napalm.
