1. CH 35 America before 1930

2. 35.2 America, 1900 to 1930 From the previous century…. 2 Americans in Europe….

3. Figure 35-31 JOHN SLOAN, Sixth Avenue and Thirtieth Street, New York City, 1907, 1909. Oil on canvas, 2’ 1/4” x 2’ 8”. Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia (gift of Meyer P. Potamkin and Vivian O. Potamkin, 2000). 3 Realistic look at life… No varnish…compare To Sargeant…. The Ashcan School…Robert Henri is the leader of “The Eight”

4. Figure 35-32 Installation photo of the Armory Show, New York National Guard’s 69th Regiment, New York, 1913. Museum of Modern Art, New York. 4 1913: The Armory Show Begins the European Dialogue… With American Artists…. Changes The way America Thinks About Art… New York, Chicago, Boston

5. Figure 35-1 MARCEL DUCHAMP, Nude Descending a Staircase, No. 2, 1912. Oil on canvas, 4’ 10 “x 2’ 11”. Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia (Louise and Walter Arensberg Collection). 5 “Cousins to the anarchists!” “Bomb Throwers!” “Lunatics!” “Depravers!” “Aliens” (bringing) Modernism… imperiling the Republic of art….” “An explosion in a shingle factory”

6. American Art Forms 6

7. Figure 35-33 MAN RAY, Cadeau (Gift), ca. 1958 (replica of 1921 original). Painted flatiron with row of 13 tacks with heads glued to the bottom, 6 1/8” x 3 5/8” x 4 1/2”. Museum of Modern Art, New York (James Thrall Soby Fund). 7 Exploring psychology Of perception of exterior World…. Unsettling juxtapositions… To create new awareness…

8. Figure 35-34 MARSDEN HARTLEY, Portrait of a German Officer, 1914. Oil on canvas, 5' 8 1/4” x 3' 5 3/8”. Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York (Alfred Stieglitz Collection). 8 A different kind of heroic Portrait… Classical references/ Modernist ideals…

9. Figure 35-35 STUART DAVIS, Lucky Strike, 1921. Oil on canvas, 2’ 9 1/4” x 1’ 6”. Museum of Modern Art, New York (gift of The American Tobacco Company, Inc.). Art © Estate of Stuart Davis/Licensed by VAGA, New York, NY. 9 Wants to convey the energy Of American culture… A modernist still-life… Sees packaging as evidence Of a sophisticated civilization Deliberately creating an American Modernism… Influence of synthetic cubism…

10. Figure 35-36 AARON DOUGLAS, Noah’s Ark, ca. 1927. Oil on masonite, 4’ x 3’. Fisk University Galleries, University of Tennessee, Nashville. 10 Artist of the Harlem Renaissance… Celebrating cultural Accomplishments of African Americans Studied in Paris.. An early Graphic Artist In New York… Also influenced by African Sculptures….

11. Figure 35-37 CHARLES DEMUTH, My Egypt, 1927. Oil on composition board, 2’ 11 3/4” x 2’ 6”. Collection of Whitney Museum of American Art, New York (purchased with funds from Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney). 11 A “Precisionist” Fascination with Machines and its Roles in modern Life…. My Egypt? Unstable Composition?

12. Figure 35-38 GEORGIA O’KEEFFE, New York, Night, 1929. Oil on canvas, 3’ 4 1/8” x 1’ 7 1/8”. Sheldon Memorial Art Gallery, Lincoln, (Nebraska Art Association, Thomas C. Woods Memorial Collection). 12 Strips subjects to their Purest forms… Heightens their power by Bringing out their strongest Qualities and de-emphasizing The extraneous….

13. Figure 35-39 ALFRED STIEGLITZ, The Steerage, 1907 (print 1915). Photogravure (on tissue), 1’ 3/8” x 10 1/8”. Courtesy of Amon Carter Museum, Fort Worth. 13 Founds Gallery 291 Took straight Unmanipulated Photos… Creates a modernist Tableau that is created By the shapes and forms Of the images in the Photos coming together To create a whole… Taking us closer to a deeper Feeling and understanding Of humanity

14. Figure 35-40 EDWARD WESTON, Nude, 1925. Platinum print, 7 1/2” x9 1/2”. Center for Creative Photography, University of Arizona, Tucson. 14 Extreme Abstraction Of form..