After the Hunt

Harnett

1885

Born in England, raised in Philly

Mentored as a silverware engraver

Studied with Eakins

Not gallery work; shown in bars & businesses

Life-sized

Objects from Europe

Objects that appeal to the senses

Old, nostalgic things

Would even mix sand into the paint

Shallow space

Harnett lived modestly

4th version painted in Paris for the Salon of 1885

Tromp L'oeil

Allie's Day

1917

Hassam

Studied in Boston; Went to Paris

Goal was "pure color"

Hassam was shocked by Modernism, but explored with color

Patriotic; Reference to WWI when US entered the war; Subject is 5th Avenue NYC parade route

One of a series

Hassam is most like French Impressionists

Sold prints of this for the war effort

An adaptation of Manet's Rue Mosnier with Flags

Impasto

Impressionistic

Charming Things, Rayograph

Man Ray

1923

Rayograph, cameraless photography using photo paper

Everyday objects in interesting composition

Ray was one of 1st to experiement with this process

Dadaist, Surrealist

Cameraless Photo

Cliff Dwellers

Bellows

1913

Title references Indian cliff homes

Tall buildings were new; no sky

Oppressive heat; all are hanging outside

Everyday life, not demeaning, no message

Effects of urbanization & industrialization on the immigrants

Ashcan

Forty-two Kids

Bellows

1907

Tribute to Eakins Swimming Hole, but more cartoon-like

Geometric composition

Denied prize at Paris Academy--offensive

"Kids" refers to street children

Very large painting

Ashcan

Girl Arranging Her Hair

Cassatt

1886

Cassatt & Degas had a mutual admiration

Girl resembles Degas' ballet rats; awkward age

"S" shapes of arms = beauty

Cassatt didn't idealize women

Painted mostly upper class women and children

Studied at Penn. Academy and in Paris 

Impressionist

Movie, 5 Cents

Sloan

1907

Modern scene with electricity

Screen suggests what is going on in the audience

Mix of classes; unchaperoned females

Ashcan

Hairdresser's Window

Sloan

1907

Gritty neighborhood; Sloan documented bustling poor city life; no moral

Saw poetry and empathy of these people

Box within a box composition

Ashcan

Iron and Tacks

Man Ray

1970

Absurd, radical, Surreal, assemblage

Point was to make the useful useless

New materials never before appropriate

Ray was inspired by the Armory show for its rebelliousness

Born in Philly, raised in Brooklyn

Dadaist/Surrealist

Assemblage

Madame X

Sargent

1884

For his 2nd Salon show in Paris

Not tonal

Image is socialite Amilie Gautreau; intent to rpomote them both

Sargent selected her pose & gown

Scandalous because of sexual innuendo and snooty pose

Metro Museum of Art bought it, but not allowed to use her name

Life-size

Portrait Artist

Near the Beach, Shinnecock

Chase

1895

Set up an art school here: Long Island, NY

Studied in NY, Nat'l Academy of Design

Also went to Munich (like Harnett)

Flamboyant personality; appealed to upper class

Should look like it landed in single puff

Don't look for something grand to paint, look for the common

Worked Alla Prima

Impressionist

Nude Descending a Staircase

Duchamp

1912

Shown at the Armory Show

Cubist influence, geometric

Suggests movement like the Futurists in Europe who used repetition like stop motion

Said painting should not be exclusively retinal or visual- It should have to do with the gray matter"

Dadaist/Surrealist

influenced by Futurists in Europe

Rainy Day, Boston

Hassam

1885

Originally an illustrator

Born in Massachusetts, learned to paint in Boston

This is before he became an Impressionist

Darker, somber, muted, reflected light

Two different perspectives

Influenced by Valesquez

Tonalist

Reproduction

Haberle

1888

Self taught

Actual size items

Intentionally provoked the authorities

Layered the paint to items' actual thinknesses

Newsclip in corner says "Amazing Counterfeit"

Self portrait is a copy of a tin-type

Trompe L'Oeil

Still Life

Six O'Clock, Winter

Sloan

1912

Modern technology: electric elevated train

Gas light illuminate the night

Descriptive of the city at the time

Ashcan

Subway

Tooker

1950

Influenced by Renaissance artists; primary colors

Cave-like, allegory of urban anxiety

Underground with great weight overhead

Sterile-looking, artificial lighting

Unhappy, non-individualized figures

worked in egg tempera, tight, strange

The city is a kind of limbo

Magic Realist

influenced by early Renaissance

Symphony in White No. 1

(Little White Girl)

Whistler

1864

Optical effects of painting in white

Woman is his lover reflected in the mirror

Impressionist

influenced by Japanese art

The Daughters of Edward D. Boit

Sargent

1882

Did sketches 1st

Snapshot-like quality

Box within box composition suggests deep space; isolated cavernous space

Casual unposed composition

Wealthy patron

Colors of Tonalism with tactile surface

Declined to show with the Impressionists

Influenced by Velazquez' Las Meninas

Portrait Artist

The Faithful Colt

Harnett

1890

Mentored as an engraver

Studied with Eakins

Not gallery work; shown in bars & businesses

life-sized

Objects puurchased in Europe

Objects that appeal to the senses

Old, nostalgic things

Mass-produced item; an icon

Simple, central composition

Shallow space

Trompe L'Oeil

Still Life

The Fleet's In!

Cadmus

1934

Painted for a government-sponsored exhibition at the Concorn Gallery in Washington

Exaggerated sexuality

Used exaggeration to create interest

Navy admiral censored this and catapaulted Cadmus' career

Watched sailors as a child and admired their lack of inhibition

Didn't aim to be controversial

Magic Realist

The Large Glass

(Bride Stripped Bare)

Duchamp

1923

Never finished, worked on from 1915-23

Female is the cloud above, male is the machine making bachelors; subject is sexual desire

Loved chance happenings, like the dust falling and eventually the glass breaking

Dadaist/Surrealist

The Oval Mirror

Cassatt

Influenced by the Renaissance artists when in Europe

Reference to Madonna and Child; mirror is halo

Unusual use of black for an Impressionist

Intimate

Loose painterly style

Cassatt gave up marriage & motherhood for her career

1901

Impressionist