A report on Albert Pinkham Ryder

Ryder in 1905, photo by Alice Boughton
Portrait of Ryder by Kahlil Gibran, 1915 (Metropolitan Museum of Art)
Albert Pinkham Ryder (1938), a posthumous tribute by Marsden Hartley, who painted a series of dark landscapes inspired by the work of Ryder in 1909
The Spirit of Autumn (c. 1875) Columbus Museum of Art, Columbus, Ohio.
The Grazing Horse (1872 to 1878) oil on canvas, 10 x 14 in. Brooklyn Museum
Children Frightened by a Rabbit (1870s) oil on leather, 38.5 x 20.25 in. Smithsonian
Summers Fruitful Pastures (mid 1870s) oil on wood, 7.75 x 10 in. Brooklyn Museum
The Lone Scout, c. 1885) oil on canvas, 2.9 x 10 in. Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco
In the Stable (early to mid 1870s) oil on canvas, 21 x32 in. Smithsonian American Art Museum
Jonah. (mid 1880s to 1890s). oil on canvas, 27.25 x 34.37 in. Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington, D.C.
Constance (mid 1880s to mid 1890s) oil on canvas. 28.25 x 36 in. Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
The Flying Dutchman, c. 1896, oil on canvas mounted on fiberboard, Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington, D.C.
Siegfried and the Rhine Maidens (1888–1891), oil on canvas, 20 x 20.50 in. National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC
The Race Track (Death on a Pale Horse) (1895–1910), oil on canvas, 28.25 x 35.25. Cleveland Museum of Art
The Lover's Boat c. 1881, Oil on canvas, Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington, D.C.
The Waste of Waters is Their Field, early 1880s, Brooklyn Museum
With Sloping Mast and Dipping Prow (late 1880s) oil on canvas, 12 x 12 in. Smithsonian American Art Museum
The Story of the Cross (mid to late 1880s) oil on canvas on panel, 14 x 11.25 in. Princeton University Art Museum
The Forest of Arden (1888 - 1897, possibly reworked 1908). Oil on canvas, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City.
Seacoast in Moonlight, 1890, the Phillips Collection, Washington, D.C.
The Dead Bird, 1890-1900, oil on wood, 4.75 x 10 in. Phillips Collection, Washington, D.C.

American painter best known for his poetic and moody allegorical works and seascapes, as well as his eccentric personality.

- Albert Pinkham Ryder
Ryder in 1905, photo by Alice Boughton

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J. Alden Weir in the late 19th century

J. Alden Weir

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American impressionist painter and member of the Cos Cob Art Colony near Greenwich, Connecticut.

American impressionist painter and member of the Cos Cob Art Colony near Greenwich, Connecticut.

J. Alden Weir in the late 19th century
The Red Bridge, c. 1895, Metropolitan Museum of Art
Studio at the Weir Farm National Historic Site
Roses in a Silver Bowl on a Mahogany Table, c. 1890
Julian Alden Weir, John Singer Sargent, 1890
Afternoon by the Pond, c. 1908–1909, The Phillips Collection
1880 bust of J. Alden Weir, sculpted by 	
Olin Levi Warner
Julian Alden Weir, 1910. In his last decade of life

While here, he strengthened his friendship with artists Albert Pinkham Ryder and John Henry Twachtman.

Armory Show poster

Armory Show

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Show organized by the Association of American Painters and Sculptors in 1913.

Show organized by the Association of American Painters and Sculptors in 1913.

Armory Show poster
A drawing by John French Sloan titled "A slight attack of third dimentia brought on by excessive study of the much-talked of cubist pictures in the International Exhibition at New York", April 1913.
69th Regiment Armory in 2008
Exhibition organizer Walter Pach, circa 1909
Exhibition organizer Arthur B. Davies, circa 1908
Armory Show, Chicago, 1913. The Cubist room
Marcel Duchamp, Jacques Villon, Raymond Duchamp-Villon, and Villon's dog Pipe in the garden of Villon's studio, Puteaux, France, ca. 1913. All three brothers were included in the exhibition.
A list written in 1912 by Pablo Picasso of European artists he felt should be included in the 1913 Armory Show. This document dispels the assertion that an unbridgeable divide separated the Salon Cubists from the Gallery Cubists. Walt Kuhn family papers and Armory Show records, Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution.
Raymond Duchamp-Villon, 1912, Study for La Maison Cubiste, Projet d'Hotel (Cubist House), plaster, H. 3 meters by W. 10 meters. Image published in Les Peintres Cubistes, by Guillaume Apollinaire, March 17, 1913
Entrance of the Exhibition, 1913, New York City
Interior view of the exhibition, 1913, New York City
Interior view of the exhibition, 1913, New York City
Armory Show artists and members of the press at the beefsteak dinner given by the Association of American Painters and Sculptors, March 8, 1913. Percy Rainford, photographer. Walt Kuhn family papers and Armory Show records, Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution
Installation shot of the Matisse room, 1913 Armory Show, published in the New York Tribune (p. 7), February 17, 1913. From the left: Le Luxe II, 1907–08, Statens Museum for Kunst, Copenhagen; "Blue Nude (Souvenir de Biskra)", 1907, Baltimore Museum of Art; L'Atelier Rouge, 1911, Museum of Modern Art, New York City
Installation shot of the Cubist room, published in the New York Tribune, February 17, 1913 (p. 7). Left to right: Raymond Duchamp-Villon, La Maison Cubiste (Projet d'Hotel), Cubist House; Marcel Duchamp Nude (Study), Sad Young Man on a Train; Albert Gleizes, L'Homme au Balcon, Man on a Balcony; Marcel Duchamp, Nude Descending a Staircase, No. 2; Alexander Archipenko, La Vie Familiale, Family Life
Eugène Delacroix, Christ on the Sea of Galilee, 1854
Honoré Daumier, The Third Class Wagon, 1862–1864
Édouard Manet, The Bullfight, 1866
James Abbott McNeill Whistler, Arrangement in Grey and Black: The Artist's Mother 1871, popularly known as Whistler's Mother, Musée d'Orsay, Paris. Although Whistler was represented by four paintings in the Armory show this was not included.
Pierre-Auguste Renoir, In The Garden 1885, Hermitage Museum, St. Petersburg
Mary Cassatt, Mère et enfant (Reine Lefebre and Margot before a Window), c.1902
Georges Seurat, Models (Les Poseuses) 1886-88, Barnes Foundation, Philadelphia
Vincent van Gogh, Self-Portrait, c. 1887, oil on canvas, 40 x 34 cm (15 ¾ by 13 ⅜ in). Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art, Hartford, CT
Vincent van Gogh, Portrait of Adeline Ravoux 1890, Cleveland Museum of Art
Vincent van Gogh, Mountain in Saint-Rémy, 1889, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum
Albert Pinkham Ryder, Seacoast in Moonlight, 1890, the Phillips Collection, Washington, D.C.
Paul Gauguin, Words of the Devil, 1892, National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC.
Paul Gauguin, Nature morte à l'estampe japonaise (Flowers Against a Yellow Background), 1889, oil on canvas, 72.4 × 93.7 cm, Museum of Contemporary Art, Tehran
Paul Gauguin, Tahitian Pastorals, (Reo Mā`ohi: Faa iheihe (Fa'ai'ei'e)), 1898, National Gallery on loan from the Tate
Henri Rousseau, The Centenary of the Revolution, 1892
Henri Rousseau, Cheval attaqué par un jaguar (Jaguar Attacking a Horse), 1910, oil on canvas, 116 x 90 cm, Pushkin Museum
Edvard Munch, Vampire 1893–94, Nasjonalgalleriet, Oslo
Paul Cézanne, Old Woman with Rosary, 1895–1896
Paul Cézanne, Baigneuses, 1877–1878
Julian Alden Weir, The Red Bridge, 1895
Claude Monet, Water Lilies and Japanese Bridge, 1897–1899
John Twachtman, Hemlock Pool, c.1900
Henri-Edmond Cross, Cypresses at Cagnes, c.1900
Paul Signac, Port de Marseille, 1905, Metropolitan Museum of Art
André Derain, 1912, Window on the Park (La Fênetre sur le parc), 130.8 × 89.5 cm, Museum of Modern Art, New York
André Derain, Landscape in Provence (Paysage de Provence) (c. 1908), Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn
Odilon Redon, Le Silence, 1900, pastel, 54.6 × 54 cm, Museum of Modern Art, New York
Odilon Redon, Roger and Angelica, 1910
George Bellows, Both Members of This Club, 1909
Othon Friesz, Landscape with Figures, 1909, oil on canvas, 65 × 83 cm
Amadeo de Souza Cardoso, Saut du Lapin, 1911
Amadeo de Souza Cardoso, Avant la Corrida, 1912, oil on canvas, 60 × 92 cm, Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation, Lisbon, Portugal
Robert Winthrop Chanler, Leopard and Deer, 1912, gouache or tempera on canvas, mounted on wood, 194.3 × 133.4 cm, Rokeby Collection
Edward Middleton Manigault, The Clown, 1910–12, oil on canvas, 86.4 × 63.2 cm, Columbus Museum of Art, Ohio
Patrick Henry Bruce, Still Life, ca. 1912
Ernst Ludwig Kirchner, Naked Playing People, 1910
Wassily Kandinsky, Improvisation 27 (Garden of Love II), 1912, oil on canvas, 47 3/8 x 55 1/4 in. (120.3 x 140.3 cm), The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
Maurice Prendergast, Landscape With Figures, 1913
Robert Henri, Figure in Motion, 1913
Arthur B. Davies, Reclining Woman (Drawing),, 1911, Pastel on gray paper
Henri Matisse, Madras Rouge, The Red Turban, 1907, Barnes Foundation
Henri Matisse, Blue Nude (Souvenir de Biskra), 1907, Baltimore Museum of Art
Henri Matisse, Le Luxe II, 1907–08, distemper on canvas, 209.5 × 138 cm, Statens Museum for Kunst, Copenhagen
Henri Matisse, L'Atelier Rouge, 1911, oil on canvas, 162 × 130 cm., The Museum of Modern Art
Pablo Picasso, 1910, Woman with Mustard Pot (La Femme au pot de moutarde), oil on canvas, 73 x 60 cm, Gemeentemuseum, The Hague
Georges Braque, Violin: "Mozart Kubelick", 1912, oil on canvas, 45.7 × 61 cm, Metropolitan Museum of Art
Albert Gleizes, 1910, La Femme aux Phlox (Woman with Phlox), oil on canvas, 81 x 100 cm, Museum of Fine Arts, Houston
Albert Gleizes, L'Homme au Balcon, Man on a Balcony (Portrait of Dr. Théo Morinaud), 1912, Philadelphia Museum of Art. Published in the Record Herald, Chicago, 25 March 1913 (see page 140)
Marcel Duchamp, Nude Descending a Staircase, No. 2, 1912, Philadelphia Museum of Art
Marcel Duchamp, 1911-1912, Nude (Study), Sad Young Man on a Train (Nu, esquisse, jeune homme triste dans un train), oil on cardboard mounted on Masonite, 100 × 73 cm, Peggy Guggenheim Collection, Venice
Francis Picabia, Grimaldi après la pluie (believed to be Souvenir of Grimaldi, Italy), ca. 1912, location unknown
Francis Picabia, The Dance at the Spring, 1912, oil on canvas, 47 7/16 × 47 1/2 inches (120.5 × 120.6 cm), Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia
Francis Picabia, The Procession, Seville, 1912, oil on canvas, 121.9 × 121.9 cm, National Gallery of Art, Washington DC.
Robert Delaunay, Window on the City, No. 4, 1910-11 (1912)
Jacques Villon, 1912, Girl at the Piano (Fillette au piano), oil on canvas, 129.2 x 96.4 cm, oval, Museum of Modern Art, New York. Exhibited at the 1913 Armory Show, New York, Chicago and Boston. Purchased from the Armory Show by John Quinn
Aristide Maillol, Bas Relief, terracotta. Exhibited at the 1913 Armory Show, New York, Chicago, Boston. Catalogue image (no. 110)
Alexander Archipenko, 1910–11, Negress (La Negresse), Armory Show catalogue photo
Alexander Archipenko, La Vie Familiale (Family Life), 1912. Exhibited at the 1912 Salon d'Automne, Paris and the 1913 Armory Show in New York, Chicago and Boston. The original sculpture (approx six feet tall) was accidentally destroyed
Alexander Archipenko, Le Repos, 1912, Armory Show postcard published in 1913
Constantin Brâncuși, 1909, Portrait De Femme (La Baronne Renée Frachon), now lost. Armory Show, published press clipping, 1913
Constantin Brâncuși, 1912, Portrait of Mlle Pogany, Philadelphia Museum of Art. Armory Show postcard
Constantin Brâncuși, The Kiss, 1907-1908, published in the Chicago Tribune, March 25, 1913
Constantin Brâncuși, Une Muse, 1912, plaster, 45.7 cm (18 in.) Armory Show postcard. Exhibited: New York (no. 618); The Art Institute of Chicago (no. 26) and Boston, Copley Hall (no. 8)
Andrew Dasburg, ca. 1912, Lucifer, plaster of Paris, no. 647 of the catalogue. Dasburg extensively reworked by carving directly into a sculpture of a life-size plaster head by Arthur Lee.(American Studies at the University of Virginia)
Abastenia St. Leger Eberle, 1912–13, The White Slave. Photograph from The Survey, Journal Publication, Ohio, May 3, 1913
John Frederick Mowbray-Clarke, ca. 1912, Group, sculpture, Armory show postcard
Wilhelm Lehmbruck, 1911, Femme á genoux (The Kneeling One), cast stone, 176 × 138 × 70 cm, Armory Show postcard
Raymond Duchamp-Villon, 1910–11, Torse de jeune homme (Torso of a young man), terracotta, 60.4 cm (23 3/4 in), Armory Show postcard, published 1913. Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C.
Jacob Epstein, The Rock Drill, 1913, in its original form, it is now lost.
Antoine Bourdelle, Herakles the Archer, 1909
George Grey Barnard, The Birth, c. 1913, marble

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Greenwich Village

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Neighborhood on the west side of Lower Manhattan in New York City, bounded by 14th Street to the north, Broadway to the east, Houston Street to the south, and the Hudson River to the west.

Neighborhood on the west side of Lower Manhattan in New York City, bounded by 14th Street to the north, Broadway to the east, Houston Street to the south, and the Hudson River to the west.

MacDougal Street in Greenwich Village
453–461 Sixth Avenue in the Historic District
The intersection of West 4th and West 12th Streets
Street signs at intersection of West 10th and West 4th Streets
Map of old Greenwich Village. A section of Bernard Ratzer's map of New York and its suburbs, made ca. 1766 for Henry Moore, royal governor of New York, when Greenwich was more than 2 miles (3 km) from the city.
Gay Street at the corner of Waverly Place; the street's name refers to a colonial family, not the LGBT character of Greenwich Village
Whitney Museum of American Art's original location, at 8–12 West 8th Street, between Fifth Avenue and MacDougal Street; currently home to the New York Studio School of Drawing, Painting and Sculpture.
The Cherry Lane Theatre is located in Greenwich Village.
The annual Greenwich Village Halloween Parade is the world's largest Halloween parade.
The Stonewall Inn, a designated U.S. National Historic Landmark and National Monument, as the site of the June 1969 Stonewall riots and the cradle of the modern gay rights movement.
Blue Note Jazz Club
The Washington Square Arch, an unofficial icon of Greenwich Village and nearby New York University
396-397 West Street at West 10th Street is a former hotel which dates from 1904, and is part of the Weehawken Street Historic District
Washington Mews in Greenwich Village; an NYU building can be seen in the background
Christopher Park, part of the Stonewall National Monument
NYPD 6th Precinct
West Village Post Office
Jefferson Market Library, once a courthouse, now serves as a branch of the New York Public Library.
Robert De Niro
Robert Downey Jr.
Hank Greenberg
Emma Stone
90 Bedford Street, used for establishing shot in Friends

After 1902, the owner's brother Albert Pinkham Ryder lived and painted there.

Hartley in 1939

Marsden Hartley

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American Modernist painter, poet, and essayist.

American Modernist painter, poet, and essayist.

Hartley in 1939
Front row, left to right: Jo Davidson, Edward Steichen, Arthur B. Carles, John Marin; back row: Marsden Hartley, Laurence Fellows, c. 1911, Bates College Museum of Art
Photograph of Hartley by Alfred Stieglitz at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, gelatin silver print, 24.8 x 19.8cm, 1916
Marsden Hartley, Handsome Drinks, 1916, oil on composition board, 61 x 50.8 cm, Brooklyn Museum, New York
Marsden Hartley, Portrait of a German Officer, 1914, oil on canvas, 173.4 x 105.1 cm, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
The Ice Hole, 1908, New Orleans Museum of Art
Autumn Color, ca. 1910, Metropolitan Museum of Art
Painting No. 48, 1913, Brooklyn Museum
Abstraction, ca. 1914, Museum of Fine Arts, Houston
A Bermuda Window in a Semi-Tropic Character, 1917, De Young Museum
Landscape, New Mexico, 1916–1920, Brooklyn Museum
The Virgin of Guadalupe, 1918–1920, Metropolitan Museum of Art
Cemetery, New Mexico, 1924, Metropolitan Museum of Art
Mount Katahdin (Maine), Autumn No. 2, 1939–40, Metropolitan Museum of Art
Village, 1940
Study for "Lobster Fishermen", 1940, Metropolitan Museum of Art
Lobster Fishermen, 1940–41, Metropolitan Museum of Art

Hartley was a great admirer of Albert Pinkham Ryder and visited his studio in Greenwich Village as often as possible.

James McNeill Whistler, Nocturne in Black and Gold: The Falling Rocket, c. 1875; Oil on panel; 60.3 x 46.4 cm

Tonalism

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Artistic style that emerged in the 1880s when American artists began to paint landscape forms with an overall tone of colored atmosphere or mist.

Artistic style that emerged in the 1880s when American artists began to paint landscape forms with an overall tone of colored atmosphere or mist.

James McNeill Whistler, Nocturne in Black and Gold: The Falling Rocket, c. 1875; Oil on panel; 60.3 x 46.4 cm
Albert Pinkham Ryder, Siegfried and the Rhine Maidens (1888 - 1891), National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC
George Inness, Summer Landscape, 1894
John H. Twachtman, The White Bridge, c. 1895, Minneapolis Institute of Arts
Leon Dabo, The Seashore, c. 1900; Oil on masonite; 76.8 x 86.4 cm
thumb|John Francis Murphy, Brooding New York landscape, c. 1900

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Society of American Artists, Jury of 1890

Society of American Artists

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American artists group.

American artists group.

Society of American Artists, Jury of 1890

Some of the first members included sculptor Augustus Saint-Gaudens, whose work had been rejected from a National Academy exhibition in 1877; painters Walter Shirlaw, Robert Swain Gifford, Albert Pinkham Ryder, John La Farge, Julian Alden Weir, John Henry Twachtman, and Alexander Helwig Wyant; and designer and artist Louis Comfort Tiffany.

Ralph Blakelock, 1870

Ralph Albert Blakelock

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Romanticist American painter known primarily for his landscape paintings related to the Tonalism movement.

Romanticist American painter known primarily for his landscape paintings related to the Tonalism movement.

Ralph Blakelock, 1870
Moonlight, c. 1883–1889, High Museum, Atlanta, Georgia
Cora Bailey (c. 1876)
Solitude, 1869, Tucson Museum of Art
Indian Encampment, 1870, Midwest Museum of American Art
Above the Clouds, c. 1875, Indianapolis Museum of Art
Sunset, Navarro Ridge, California Coast, 1870–1879, Smithsonian American Art Museum
Edge of the Forest, 1880–1890, Brooklyn Museum
Evening, 1880–1890, Haggin Museum, Stockton
The Canoe, 1880–1890, Haggin Museum, Stockton
Canadian Indian Hunters, 1881, Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art
Moonlight, Indian Encampment, 1885–1890, Smithsonian American Art Museum
Moonlight, 1885-1890, Columbus Museum of Art
The Signal Fire, 1885–1890, Smithsonian American Art Museum
Moonlight Sonata, 1889–1892, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
Moonlight, 1886–1895, Corcoran Gallery of Art
Moonlight, c. late 1880s–1890s, Phillips Collection
Moonlight on the Brook, 1886–1895, Krannert Art Museum
Morning Light, 1902, Indianapolis Museum of Art
Left: Twilight (c. 1919-1923, private collection), one of Harry Watrous' nocturnes that pays posthumous homage. Right: Blakelock's (c. 1888, Yale University Art Gallery).

Along with his contemporary Albert Pinkham Ryder, Ralph Albert Blakelock was one of the most individual American painters of his time.

The front of the Museum (2019)

Whitney Museum

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Art museum in the Meatpacking District and West Village neighborhoods of Manhattan in New York City.

Art museum in the Meatpacking District and West Village neighborhoods of Manhattan in New York City.

The front of the Museum (2019)
The front of the Museum (2019)
The Whitney's original location, at 8–12 West 8th Street, between Fifth Avenue and MacDougal Street in Greenwich Village
The Whitney Museum of American Art's former (1966–2014) home on Madison Avenue; the Marcel Breuer-designed building has seen numerous subsequent uses.
Entrance to the Whitney via the High Line
The Whitney Museum, New York City in 2016: The building was designed by Renzo Piano.
Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney by Robert Henri (1916)
Banners from April 5, 2019, protest by Decolonize This Place at the Whitney Museum, New York NY, over board vice chair Warren Kanders' ownership of Safariland, a manufacturer of tear gas and other weapons
Theodore Robinson, Etude, (1890)
Maurice Prendergast, Central Park, 1900, (1900)
Robert Henri, Laughing Child, (1907)
Oscar Florianus Bluemner, Old Canal Port, (1914)
Thomas Hart Benton, House in Cubist Landscape, (c. 1915–1920)
George Luks, Armistice Night, (1918)
Edward Hopper, New York Interior, c. 1921
George Bellows, Dempsey and Firpo, (1924)

Artists represented include Josef Albers, Joe Andoe, Edmund Archer, Donald Baechler, Thomas Hart Benton, Lucile Blanch, Jonathan Borofsky, Louise Bourgeois, Sonia Gordon Brown, Charles Burchfield, Alexander Calder, Suzanne Caporael, Norman Carton, Carolina Caycedo, Ching Ho Cheng, Talia Chetrit, Ann Craven, Anna Craycroft, Dan Christensen, Greg Colson, Susan Crocker, Ronald Davis, Stuart Davis, Mira Dancy, Lindsey Decker, Martha Diamond, Richard Diebenkorn, Daniella Dooling, Arthur Dove, Loretta Dunkelman, William Eggleston, Helen Frankenthaler, Georgia O'Keeffe, Arshile Gorky, Keith Haring, Grace Hartigan, Marsden Hartley, Robert Henri, Carmen Herrera, Eva Hesse, Hans Hofmann, Edward Hopper, Richard Hunt, Jasper Johns, Corita Kent, Franz Kline, Terence Koh, Willem de Kooning, Lee Krasner, Ronnie Landfield, John Marin, Knox Martin, John McCracken, John McLaughlin, Robert Motherwell, Bruce Nauman, Louise Nevelson, Barnett Newman, Kenneth Noland, Paul Pfeiffer, Jackson Pollock, Larry Poons, Maurice Prendergast, Kenneth Price, Robert Rauschenberg, Man Ray, Mark Rothko, Morgan Russell, Albert Pinkham Ryder, Cindy Sherman, John Sloan, Frank Stella, Andy Warhol, and hundreds of others.

Photograph of Robert Loftin Newman, ca. 1900

Robert Loftin Newman

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American painter and stained-glass designer.

American painter and stained-glass designer.

Photograph of Robert Loftin Newman, ca. 1900

He is sometimes associated with Albert Pinkham Ryder as a painter of mood.

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National Academy of Design

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Honorary association of American artists, founded in New York City in 1825 by Samuel Morse, Asher Durand, Thomas Cole, Martin E. Thompson, Charles Cushing Wright, Ithiel Town, and others "to promote the fine arts in America through instruction and exhibition."

Honorary association of American artists, founded in New York City in 1825 by Samuel Morse, Asher Durand, Thomas Cole, Martin E. Thompson, Charles Cushing Wright, Ithiel Town, and others "to promote the fine arts in America through instruction and exhibition."

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National Academy of Design, one of many Gothic Revival buildings modeled on the Doge's Palace in Venice, seen c. 1863–1865. This building was demolished in 1901.
The National Academy School of Fine Arts
A few members in 1850 (L to R): Henry Kirke Brown, Henry Peters Gray and founding member Asher Brown Durand.
Annual Reception at the National Academy of Design, New York, 1868, a wood engraving from a sketch by W. S. L. Jewett.
Norman Rockwell

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