American modernism

In New York the photographer Alfred Stieglitz championed young American artists. In 1909 he gave Marsden Hartley a one-man show at his 291 gallery, and he asked Charles Demuth to write for his journal Camera Work. Both took ideas from modern art in Europe. Demuth joined Cubist planes to the factories and buildings of his home town, Lancaster. In New York the photographer Alfred Stieglitz used his small galleries to show modern European art and to build a circle of young American artists, among them Marsden Hartley, John Marin, Arthur Dove, Charles Demuth and Georgia O’Keeffe. After the Armory Show of 1913 he showed mostly Americans. Look at how these artists took ideas from Cubism and abstraction and turned them on American places, flowers and city life. Connected places: New York · Maine · Pennsylvania.

• The Dark MountainMarsden Hartley, 1909
• MovementMarsden Hartley, 1913
• Still Life No. 15Marsden Hartley, c. 1917
• The Last of New England—The Beginning of New MexicoMarsden Hartley, 1918–19
• ProvincetownMarsden Hartley, 1916
• Movement No. 10Marsden Hartley, 1917
• Landscape No. 3, Cash Entry Mines, New MexicoMarsden Hartley, 1920
• Dancing SailorsCharles Demuth, 1917
• Rooftops and TreesCharles Demuth, 1918
• In Vaudeville, the Bicycle RiderCharles Demuth, 1919
• AmaryllisCharles Demuth, c. 1923
• Zinnias and a Blue Dish with LemonsCharles Demuth, 1924