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Charles Dana Gibson, The Weaker Sex
1903
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Howard Chandler Christy, Americans All!
1919
Surnames from all ethnic groups, with the notable exception of German surnames, are represented. |
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Thomas Eakins, Max Schmidt in a Single Scull
1871
representations of the sport of sculling, a subject for which he is uniquely identified.It is believed to commemorate the victory of Max Schmitt |
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Thomas Eakins, The Gross Clinic (Portrait of Professor Gross), 1875
Philadelphia’s 1876 Centennial Exhibition, Dr. Samuel Gross as his subject |
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James McNeill Whistler, Symphony in White no.1: The White Girl,
1863
title refers to hm doing art for arts sake |
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James McNeill Whistler, Nocturne in Black and Gold: Falling Rocket
1875
inspired by the Cremorne Gardens, a celebrated pleasure resort in London, art for arts sake |
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John Singer Sargent, Carnation, Lily, Lily Rose
1885
The inspiration for this picture came during a boating expedition, during which he saw Chinese lanterns hanging among trees and lilies |
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John Singer Sargent, Madame X
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George Bellows, The Cliff Dwellers
1913
Stands out from other ash can paintings as a strong social commentary, vignettes of urban life |
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Robert Henri, Salome
1909
suggests his desire to capitalize on Salome’s high currency for controversy, Broad, slashing strokes give powerful shape to this defiant female figure |
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John Sloan, 3 AM
1909
underdressed working-class women shocked contemporary audiences, and the painting was rejected by exhibition juries. |
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Destroy This Mad Brute! Enlist!
1917
While England and France were depicted as “civilization,” Germany was shown as a “mad brute” |
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Palmer Hayden, Fetiche et Fleurs,
1926
the legendary railroad hero, signified "the beginning of the movement of the Negro from agricultural into industrial labor." |
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Edward Curtis, The Vanishing Race,
1906
Native Americans were the great casualty of the U.S.’s grand westward advance. |
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Thomas Hart Benton, Persephone,
1939
“fit for a Moscow Subway”, americans didn't like it, too european |
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Thomas Hart Benton, Coal, mural from America Today, 1930 (p. 417 of book)
Offering a panorama of American life throughout the 1920s, ten panels, allusions to the economic despair and inequity caused by the Great Depression |
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John Sloan, Editorial Cartoon about the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory
1911
fire that killed 146 workers of the Triangle Waist Company |
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George Bellows, Pennsylvania Excavation,
1907
emphasize the rapid transformation of New York in the early twentieth century |
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Thomas Kinkade, Pinocchio Wishes on a Star,
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Norman Rockwell, The Love Song
1926
presents one of Rockwell's major themes, the different stages of life, An old map may suggest where the scene takes place and also recalls the image-within-an-image process Rockwell often used in his works. |
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George Bellows, The River Rats,
1906
It depicts low-income children scampering about at water's edge below some massive earthworks |
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