The Eight and American modernisms / edited by Elizabeth Kennedy ; with contributions by Peter John Brownlee ... [et al.]. - [New Britain, Conn.] : [Milwaukee] : Chicago : New Britain Museum of American Art ; Milwaukee Art Museum ; Terra Foundation for American Art : Distributed by the University of Chicago Press, c2009. - 176 p. : ill. (chiefly col.) ; 32 cm

"Published in conjunction with the exhibition The Eight and American modernisms which was co-organized by the Terra Foundation for American Art, the New Britain Museum of American Art, Connecticut (March 6-May 24, 2009), and the Milwaukee Art Museum (June 6-August 23, 2009)"--T.p. verso.

Includes bibliographical references.

The eight : "modern art of one kind and another" / Elizabeth Kennedy -- The problem of Arthur B. Davies / Kimberly Orcutt -- On a perpetual holiday : the art of William Glackens after the Eight / Peter John Brownlee -- After the armory : Robert Henri, individualism and American modernisms / Sarah Vure -- Ernest Lawson : nostalgia for landscape / Jochen Wierich -- George Luks : rogue, raconteur, and realist / Judith Hansen O'Toole -- Maurice B. Prendergast : the modern spirit / Elizabeth Kennedy -- Everett Shinn's time warp / Leo G. Mazow -- Art matters : John Sloan, independence and the aesthetic consumer / Sarah Vure.

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Glackens, William J., 1870-1938.
Henri, Robert, 1865-1929.
Lawson, Ernest, 1873-1939.
Luks, George, 1867-1933.
Prendergast, Maurice, 1859-1924.
Shinn, Everett, 1876-1953.
Sloan, John, 1871-1951.


Eight (Group of American artists)--Exhibitions.
Modernism (Art)--United States--Exhibitions.
Painting, American--20th century--Exhibitions.

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