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True Grit - American Prints from 1900 to 1950 (Hardcover)
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True Grit - American Prints from 1900 to 1950 (Hardcover)
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In the first half of the twentieth century, a group of American
artists influenced by the painter and teacher Robert Henri aimed to
reject the pretenses of academic fine art and polite society.
Embracing the democratic inclusiveness of the Progressive movement,
these artists turned to making prints, which were relatively
inexpensive to produce and easy to distribute. For their subject
matter, the artists mined the bustling activity and stark realities
of the urban centers in which they lived and worked. Their prints
feature sublime towering skyscrapers and stifling city streets,
jazzy dance halls and bleak tenement interiors-intimate and
anonymous everyday scenes that addressed modern life in America.
True Grit examines a rich selection of prints by well-known figures
like George Bellows, Edward Hopper, Joseph Pennell, and John Sloan
as well as lesser-known artists such as Ida Abelman, Peggy Bacon,
Miguel Covarrubias, and Mabel Dwight. Written by three scholars of
printmaking and American art, the essays present nuanced
discussions of gender, class, literature, and politics,
contextualizing the prints in the rapidly changing milieu of the
first decades of twentieth-century America.
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