and also about the EIGHT..........



Robert Henri (born Robert Henry Cozad) (American, 1865-1929), The Masquerade Dress, 1911, oil on canvas, 76 1/2 x 36 1/4 inches (194.2 x 92 cm), Metropolitan Museum of Art, NY.
Source:ARTLEX on the eight: ( http://www.artlex.com/ArtLex/e/theeight.html)

The Eight- A group of American painters who united to oppose various traditions upheld by the National Academy. They exhibited together only once — in 1908, but the effect of their gesture was to strengthen the advance of modernism in the United States. The Eight included five painters associated with the Ashcan school: Robert Henri (1865-1929), George Luks (1867-1933), William Glackens (1870-1938), John Sloan (1871-1951), and Everett Shinn (1876-1953), along with Maurice Prendergast (1859-1924), Ernest Lawson (1873-1939), and Arthur Bowen Davies (1862-1928).

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