This portrait gives us a glimpse into the creative circle of Alfred Stieglitz in 1920s New York, with references to Georgia O'Keeffe, Arthur Dove, Henry McBride, and others.
american art to wwii
Painted after the end of World War I and amid pressure to "represent his race" as a Black man, Tanner brings biblical scenes into the modern world
Henry Ossawa Tanner, The Good Shepherd
Ufer, a German immigrant to the United States, seeks an authentic American art in New Mexico on the heels of World War I and the influenza epidemic
Walter Ufer, Hunger
O'Keeffe takes on the New York skyline in the 1920s
Georgia O’Keeffe, Radiator Building—Night, New York
An ode to a taken homeland, this painting features a broad landscape of the Wichita Mountains and an everyday scene of the Kiowa people
Stephen Mopope, Game of Skill
A dream-like flooded landscape—does is suggest bleakness or hope?
Eldzier Cortor, Southern Landscape
Woodruff reimagines racist tropes of Black banjo players with a figure who is confident and joyful
Hale Woodruff, The Banjo Player
An explosion in a mine kills 111, Shahn captures the devastation of those left behind.
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