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Introduction

Early Modernism in America

February 24 - April 16, 1995

Selected Objects

Oscar Bluemner

Rosy Light, 1927
No Image Available

Ralston Crawford, designer

Grey Street, 1940
No Image Available

Reginald Marsh, designer

Coney Island Beach #1, 1939

Ilya Bolotowsky

Abstraction, 1941

Thomas Hart Benton

New York from Hoboken, 1900s

Linda Reed

Lettuce Bowl, 1980-1981

George Copeland Ault

Trees and Rock, 1923

Charles Demuth

Bicyclists, ca. 1916 - 1917

Charles Sheeler

Delmonico Building, 1927

Charles Sheeler

House with Trees, 1915
No Image Available

Thomas Hart Benton

Plantation Quarters, 1900s

Reginald Marsh, designer

Bowery, 1928

Abraham Walkowitz

Cityscape, 1912

Benjamin Newton Messick, designer

Blind Man, Shoeshine Boy, and Card player, 1940
No Image Available

Harry Sternberg, designer

Blast Furnace at Night, ca. 1936

Grant Wood

Plowing on Sunday, 1934
No Image Available

John Taylor Arms, designer

West 42nd Street, 1920

Charles Green Shaw

Improvisation #1, 1940

Charles Demuth

Bathers, 1916
No Image Available

William Jordy

Untitled (study for mural a post office near Binghamton, NY), ca. 1938

Louis Lozowick

Luna Park, ca. 1929

Sibley Smith

Rural Nocturne, 1938

Joseph Stella

Parade, 1917
No Image Available

Allen Tucker

Trees, 1915

Frederic Rodrigo Gruger

Sweat and Iron, 1924

George Wesley Bellows

Splinter Beach, 1916

Elie Nadelman

Study of Veiled Woman's Head, ca. 1915

Niles Spencer

Steel Country, 1937

Charles Demuth

Gloucester, 1919

Oscar Bluemner

Canal at Philipsburg, 1916
No Image Available

Elie Nadelman, designer

Classical Head of a Woman, 1920

Josef Albers, designer

Segments, 1934

Miklos Suba

New York City, 1929

Richard Neutra

Perspective view of the John Nicholas Brown "Windshield" House, 1936-1938

Joseph Pennell, designer

Hail America, 1908

Niles Spencer

Down the Hill, Provincetown, 1924

Thomas Hart Benton, designer

Arkansas Evening, 1941

Reginald Marsh

Train, 1933

Louis Lozowick

Tanks #3, 1930

Raphael Soyer

Study for the Seamstress

John Sloan, designer

Night Windows, 1910
No Image Available

Armin Landeck, designer

Staircase, 1942

Thomas Hart Benton

Mural study for "History of New York: Colonial Era", 1900s
No Image Available

Charles Henry Fromuth

Tryptick Sailing Composition, 1926

Diego Rivera

Study for The Conquest of Air, 1932

Richard Neutra

Perspective view of the John Nicholas Brown 'Windshield House', 1936-1938
No Image Available

John Marin, designer

Boats and Bridge, 1914

Springs Industries

fabric length; textile length, 1930s
No Image Available

Oscar Bluemner

Lock Canal Port, from Bridge, Bloomfield, New Jersey, 1916
No Image Available

Boris Artzybasheff, designer

The Last Trumpet, 1937

Edward Steichen

Self-Portrait, 1917

Thomas Hart Benton

Mural Study for "History of New York: Indians", 1900s

Reginald Marsh

Two Girls on Ferry, ca. 1950
No Image Available

Grant Wood, designer

July Fifteenth, 1939

Ben Shahn

Summer, Corn in Crib, Central, Ohio, 1938

Charles Ephraim Burchfield

Gates Down, 1920
No Image Available

John Sloan, designer

Hell Hole, 1917

Clarence H. White

Camera Work, 1903

Joseph Stella

Underpass, Allegheny, 1908
No Image Available

Asa Cheffetz, designer

Rural Schoolhouse, 1900s
No Image Available

Dorothea Lange

She's a Jim Dandy, 1938

John Marin

Lake George:On Andrew's Island, 1923
No Image Available

John Marin, designer

Brooklyn Bridge (Mosaic), 1913
No Image Available

John Marin

Brooklyn Bridge with Figures, late 1800s-mid 1900s

Alexander Archipenko, designer

Nude, 1900s
No Image Available

Grant Wood, designer

Approaching Storm, 1940

William Zorach

Birch Forest, late 1800s-mid 1900s

Martin Lewis, designer

On the Roof, ca. 1937

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