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Home>Research>Online Editions>American Paintings, 1900–1945

          NGA Online Editions                        American Paintings, 1900–1945                

# American Paintings, 1900–1945

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                      Emma Acker, Nancy Anderson, Charles Brock, Sarah Cash, Harry Cooper, Ruth Fine, Adam Greenhalgh, Sarah Greenough, Franklin Kelly, Valerie Ann Leeds, Dorothy Moss, Laura Napolitano, Kerry Roeder, Zoë Samels, Catherine Southwick, Lisa Strong, Robert Torchia, Jennifer Wingate,  *American Paintings, 1900–1945*, NGA Online Editions, https://purl.org/nga/collection/catalogue/american-paintings-1900-1945 (accessed April 19, 2024).                   

                    -  	                   Albright, Ivan	                
                    -  	                   Baer, George	                
                    -  	                   Bellows, George	                
                    -  	                   Benton, Thomas Hart	                
                    -  	                   Bluemner, Oscar F.	                
                    -  	                   Bruce, Patrick Henry	                
                    -  	                   Curry, John Steuart	                
                    -  	                   Davies, Arthur B.	                
                    -  	                   Davis, Stuart	                
                    -  	                   Dearth, Henry Golden	                
                    -  	                   Dodd, Lamar	                
                    -  	                   Douglas, Aaron	                
                    -  	                   Dove, Arthur	                
                    -  	                   Emmet, Lydia Field	                
                    -  	                   Hartley, Marsden	                
                    -  	                   Henri, Robert	                
                    -  	                   Hopper, Edward	                
                    -  	                   Jonson, Raymond	                
                    -  	                   Kent, Rockwell	                
                    -  	                   Kuhn, Walt	                
                    -  	                   Kuniyoshi, Yasuo	                
                    -  	                   Marin, John	                
                    -  	                   Marsh, Reginald	                
                    -  	                   Myers, Jerome	                
                    -  	                   O'Keeffe, Georgia	                
                    -  	                   Pène du Bois, Guy	                
                    -  	                   Pippin, Horace	                
                    -  	                   Prendergast, Maurice	                
                    -  	                   Sheeler, Charles	                
                    -  	                   Sloan, John	                
                    -  	                   Soyer, Raphael	                
                    -  	                   Steichen, Edward	                
                    -  	                   Tucker, Allen	                
                    -  	                   Weber, Max	                
                    -  	                   Wood, Grant	                

                    -  Show all works 
                    -                              The Aero                     
                    -                              Anne with a Japanese Parasol                     
                    -                              Bather Seated on Rocks                     
                    -                              Berlin Abstraction                     
                    -                              Bizarre                     
                    -                              Blue Morning                     
                    -                              Both Members of This Club                     
                    -                              Buildings with Snowbank, Cliffside, New Jersey                     
                    -                              Cape Cod Evening                     
                    -                              Catharine                     
                    -                              Circus Elephants                     
                    -                              Citadel                     
                    -                              The City from Greenwich Village                     
                    -                              Classic Landscape                     
                    -                              Club Night                     
                    -                              Corn and Winter Wheat                     
                    -                              Cows in Pasture                     
                    -                              Flecks of Foam                     
                    -                              Florence Sittenham Davey (Mrs. Randall Davey)                     
                    -                              Forty-two Kids                     
                    -                              Green Apples and Scoop                     
                    -                              Grey Sea                     
                    -                              Ground Swell                     
                    -                              Hallway, Italian Restaurant                     
                    -                              Harriet Lancashire White (Mrs. Edward Laurence White) and Her Children, Sarah and Laurence                     
                    -                              Haying                     
                    -                              House with Dutch Roof                     
                    -                              Imagination                     
                    -                              Indian Girl in White Blanket                     
                    -                              Into Bondage                     
                    -                              Jack-in-Pulpit Abstraction - No. 5                     
                    -                              Jack-in-Pulpit - No. 2                     
                    -                              Jack-in-the-Pulpit No. 3                     
                    -                              Jack-in-the-Pulpit No. IV                     
                    -                              Jack-in-the-Pulpit No. VI                     
                    -                              The Judgment Day                     
                    -                              Landscape No. 5                     
                    -                              Landscape with Figures                     
                    -                              La Rue de la Santé                     
                    -                              Le Tournesol (The Sunflower)                     
                    -                              Life on the East Side                     
                    -                              Line and Curve                     
                    -                              Little Girl in White (Queenie Burnett)                     
                    -                              The Lone Tenement                     
                    -                              Maine Woods                     
                    -                              Marie Jane Hughes Marin (Mrs. John Marin)                     
                    -                              Masouba                     
                    -                              Maud Murray Dale (Mrs. Chester Dale)                     
                    -                              Moon                     
                    -                              Moth Dance                     
                    -                              Mount Katahdin, Maine                     
                    -                              Multiple Views                     
                    -                              My Family                     
                    -                              New Road                     
                    -                              New York                     
                    -                              Nude with Red Hair                     
                    -                              Olivia                     
                    -                              Peinture/Nature Morte                     
                    -                              Pierrot Tired                     
                    -                              The Politicians                     
                    -                              A Railroad Station Waiting Room                     
                    -                              Rush Hour, New York                     
                    -                              School Studies                     
                    -                              Smokehounds                     
                    -                              Snow in New York                     
                    -                              Space Divided by Line Motive                     
                    -                              Stars and Dews and Dreams of Night                     
                    -                              Study for "Swing Landscape"                     
                    -                              There Were No Flowers Tonight                     
                    -                              Trail Riders                     
                    -                              Variations on a Rhythm--U                     
                    -                              Volendam Street Scene                     
                    -                              The White Clown                     
                    -                              Winter Valley                     
                    -                              The Written Sea                     
                    -                              Yeats at Petitpas'                     
                    -                              Young Woman in White                     

Robert Torchia

Nancy Anderson

Charles Brock

Sarah Cash

Harry Cooper

Ruth Fine

Adam Greenhalgh

Sarah Greenough

Franklin Kelly

Valerie Ann Leeds

Dorothy Moss

Laura Napolitano

Kerry Roeder

Catherine Southwick

Lisa Strong

Michael Swicklik

Jennifer Wingate

American Modernism and the National Gallery of Art

Notes to the Reader
Credits and Acknowledgments

The first curator of the National Gallery of Art, John Walker, and three of its early trustees—Chester Dale, Duncan Phillips, and Paul Mellon—established a commitment to the field of American 20th-century art that has continued to the present day. If American contemporary art was far from a top priority when the Gallery opened in 1941, these “conservative” modernists nonetheless managed to set precedents that proved to be durable and effective. The masterpieces by George Bellows (American, 1882 - 1925) given by Dale in 1944 and 1963, the oils and photographs in the Alfred Stieglitz (American, 1864 - 1946) bequest directed to the Gallery by Georgia O'Keeffe (American, 1887 - 1986) with the encouragement of Walker and Phillips in 1949, and, finally, the construction of the East Building, brought to fruition in 1978 with the informed patronage of Paul Mellon, all proved crucial. Dale’s and Phillips’s interest in the followers of Robert Henri (American, 1865 - 1929) and Stieglitz respectively assured that a substantial body of work by the artists associated with these early proponents of American modernism was put in place. The opening of the East Building, I. M. Pei’s brilliant response to John Russell Pope’s neoclassical West Building, sparked a dialogue between modernism and the past while providing the architectural and conceptual framework needed to further grow the Gallery’s collection of 20th-century American paintings.

*American Paintings, 1900–1945*, the third catalog in the Gallery’s Online Editions,**was first launched to coincide with an important new chapter in the display of modern art at the Gallery: the inauguration of a suite of galleries devoted to American modernism in the fall of 2016. Part of a comprehensive reinstallation of the renovated and expanded East Building, the three galleries, for the first time in the institution’s history, unite masterworks by the leading artists of the Henri and Stieglitz circles with related masterpieces drawn from the Gallery’s rich collections of photographs and drawings. Major oils by Edward Hopper (American, 1882 - 1967), Bellows, Aaron Douglas (American, 1899 - 1979), Arthur Dove (American, 1880 - 1946), Marsden Hartley (American, 1877 - 1943), O’Keeffe, Charles Sheeler (American, 1883 - 1965), and others that will regularly be on view in the East Building are highlighted in the catalog. Among the selection are several key paintings recently acquired from the Corcoran Gallery of Art collection, including Bellows’s *Forty-two Kids*, Hartley’s *Berlin Abstraction*, and Hopper’s *Ground Swell*.

The detailed entries and scholarly apparatuses compiled by Robert Torchia, the catalog’s primary author, are supplemented by contributions from National Gallery of Art curators and other prominent art historians. As online publishing continues to evolve, the catalog promises to become a dynamic tool for both scholars and the general public to actively engage with the Gallery’s permanent collection and to further their understanding of early 20th-century American art.

Stuart Davis: In Full Swing

Modern American Prints and Drawings from the Kainen Collection

Andrew Wyeth: Looking Out, Looking In

George Bellows

American Modernism: The Shein Collection

Edward Hopper

Charles Sheeler Across Media

Drawing on America's Past: Folk Art, Modernism, and the Index of American Design

Alfred Stieglitz: Known and Unknown

A Century of Drawing: Works on Paper from Degas to LeWitt

Modern Art and America: Alfred Stieglitz and His New York Galleries

O'Keeffe on Paper

Max Weber's Modern Vision: Selections from the

National Gallery of Art and Related Collections

Stieglitz in the Darkroom

Selections and Transformations: The Art of John Marin

The Art of Paul Strand

Georgia O'Keeffe 1887–1986

American Drawings and Watercolors of the Twentieth Century: Selections from the Whitney Museum of American Art

New York Interpreted: Joseph Stella, Alfred Stieglitz

Monotypes by Maurice Prendergast from the Terra Museum of American Art

Photographs by Alfred Stieglitz

Bellows: The Boxing Pictures

John Sloan 1871–1951

Photographs by Alfred Stieglitz from the Alfred Stieglitz Collection of the National Gallery of Art

Lithographs by George Bellows

Photographs by Alfred Stieglitz

A Retrospective Exhibition of the Work of George Bellows

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