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American Painting in the Twentieth Century

Geldzahler, Henry (1965)

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Introduction by Robert Beverly Hale and James J. Rorimer

1. The Eight and Their Satellites

2. The First Wave of Modernism

3. Figurative Painters of the Twenties and Thirties

4. The Regionalists

5. Fourteenth Street: The City Scene

6. The Social Realists

7. Primitives and Naives

8. The Hard Edge: Industrial and Abstract

9. Surrealists and Magic Realists

10. The Pacific Northwest Painters

11. Figurative Painters of the Forties and Fifties

12. The New Abstraction

Biographies of the Painters
Bibliography
Index

About the authors

Henry Geldzahler is Associate Curator, American Paintings and Sculpture, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York.

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Authors: Henry Geldzahler

Artists: Albers, Josef (American, born Germany, 1888–1976) | Avery, Milton | Baziotes, William (American, 1912–1963) | Bellows, George | Benton, Thomas Hart | Blume, Peter (American, born Russia, 1906–1992) | Carles, Arthur B. | Davies, Arthur B. | De Kooning, Willem (American, born the Netherlands, 1904–1997) | Demuth, Charles (American, 1883–1935) | Diller, Burgoyne (American, 1906–1965) | Dove, Arthur (American, 1880–1946) | Eilshemius, Louis Michel | Feininger, Lyonel Charles (American, 1871–1956) | Francis, Sam | Glackens, William (American, 1870–1938) | Gorky, Arshile (American, born Armenia, 1904–1948) | Grosz, George (American, born Germany, 1893–1959) | Halpert, Samuel | Hartley, Marsden (American, 1877–1943) | Hawthorne, Charles Webster | Henri, Robert (American, 1865–1929) | Higgins, Eugene | Hofmann, Hans (German, 1880–1966) | Hopper, Edward (American, 1882–1967) | Johns, Jasper (American, born 1930) | Kane, John | Karfiol, Bernard | Kelly, Ellsworth | Kline, Franz (American, 1910–1962) | Kuhn, Walt | Kuniyoshi, Yasuo | Lawson, Ernest | Lie, Jonas | Luks, George (American, 1866–1933) | Macdonald-Wright, Stanton | Marca-Relli, Conrad | Marin, John (American, 1870–1953) | Maurer, Alfred Henry | Moses, Anna Mary Robertson (Grandma) | Motherwell, Robert (American, 1915–1991) | Myers, Jerome | O'Keeffe, Georgia (America, 1887–1986) | Pascin, Jules | Pippin, Horace | Pollock, Jackson (American, 1912–1956) | Prendergast, Maurice (American, 1858–1924) | Rauschenberg, Robert (American, 1925–2008) | Ray, Man (American, 1890–1976) | Rothko, Mark (American, born Russia, 1903–1970) | Shahn, Ben (American, born Lithuania, 1898–1969) | Sheeler, Charles (American, 1883–1965) | Shinn, Everett (American, 1876–1953) | Sloan, John (American, 1871–1951) | Speicher, Eugene | Spencer, Niles (American, 1893–1952) | Stella, Joseph (American, born Italy, 1877–1946) | Stieglitz, Alfred (American, 1864–1946) | Tanguy, Yves (American, born France, 1900–1955) | Tobey, Mark | Wiggins, Guy

Keywords: Abstract | Abstract Expressionism | America | American artists | McFee, Henry Lee | Modern art | Modernism | Native American | Primitive art | Surrealism | Twentieth-century

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