TVM Basement 20th C. Pre WW II North American Art

North American Art
Before the Second World War

1900 to 1945

(part 2 of 2)

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Joseph Stella

born: Muro Lucano (near Naples), Italy; 1877
died: New York, USA; 1946

At 19 Joseph Stella immigrated to the United States. The following year, he started his formal training at the New York School of Art. He was exposed to the Realist approach to art and his early work depicted New York through external features and human inhabitants.

A trip to Europe in 1909 exposured him to Cubism and Futurist trends. Upon returning he established a new style for himself incorporating Cubism and Experessionist elements into his own style.

Strength—
The New Stock
about 1908

Battle of Lights—
Cony Island, NY
about 1914

Abstraction
1914

Orange Gladiola
about 1915

City Buildings
1917

Flowers
about 1925

Tropical Flowers
about 1925

Old Brooklyn Bridge
1941

Arthur G Dove

born: Canandaigua, NY, US; 2 August 1880
died: Huntingdon, NY, US; 23 November 1946

Cross in a Tree
1935

Six more Dove pictures.

José Clemente Orozco

born: Ciudad Guzmán, Mexico; 23 November1883
died: Mexico City, Mexico; 7 September 1949

Academics

Cactus

Zapata
1921

Table of
Universal Brotherhood
1930-31
Fresco in the
New School for Social Research
New York, NY, US

Lawren Stewart Harris

born: Brantford, Ontario, Canada; 23 October 1885
died: Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada; 29 January 1970

Mt. Robson
1929

Abstraction
1937

Fourteen more Harris pictures.

Georgia O'Keeffe

born: Sun Prairie, Wisconsin; 15 November 1887
died: Santa Fe, New Mexico; 6 March 1986

Married to the photographer Alfred Stieglitz who is famous for his photographs of her.

New York Pictures

Radiator Building

Flower Pictures

Jack in the Pulpit 5

New Mexico Pictures

Far-a-way Near-by

Shell and Tree Pictures

Red and Rose

White Birch

Thirty-five more Georgia O'Keeffe pictures.

Sam Hyde Harris

born: Brentford, Middlesex, England; 2 February 1889
died: Alhambra, Southern California; 30 May 1977

In 1904, when Sam was fifteen, his family emigrated from England to the Los Angeles area. He studied art in Los Angeles, and later taught art in Southern California. His art production was primarily of Southern California landscapes: from the coast to the desert.