George Breitner

George Hendrik Breitner (Rotterdam, 1857 - Amsterdam, 1923) 

Early morning Sun

George Hendrik Breitner (Rotterdam, September 12, 1857 - Amsterdam, June 5, 1923) was a Dutch painter, famous for his view of Amsterdam city life. His work is related to that of the 'Eighties', a group of artists with great influence on the Dutch art world during the eighties of the nineteenth century. Painters like Isaac Israels, Willem Witsen, and poets like Willem Kloos and Louis of Deyssel belonged to his circle.

Marie Jordan before Breitner’s copy of Rembrandt’s Anatomy Lesson, c. 1890

A Czech painter: Emil Filla

Emil Filla - View over Gruž, 1908. Oil on card, 66 x 50 cm.

Emil Filla - Milostna Noc  (Night of Love)  c 1908

Emil Filla (4 April 1882 – 7 October 1953), a Czech painter, was a leader of the avant-garde in Prague between World War I and World War II and was an early Cubist painter.
Filla was a member of the group Osma (The Eight) in 1907–1908, which had commonalities with the Fauves and also had direct ties to the German Expressionist group Die Brücke. Important works by Filla from this period include Reader of Dostoevsky (1907) and Chess Players (1908). In 1909, he became a member of the Mánes Union of Fine Arts.
Beginning in 1910 he painted primarily in a Cubist style, strongly influenced by Picasso and Braque, and produced works such as Salome (1911) and Bathers (1912). He also began to paint many still lifes around that time. In 1911 he edited several issues of Volné smery, promoting Cubism and publishing reproductions of works by Picasso. After both readers and the leaders of Mánes reacted negatively, he and others withdrew from Mánes and founded Skupina výtvarných umelcu (the Group of Visual Artists), which was a Cubist-oriented group.
Around 1913, he and Otto Gutfreund, produced some of the earliest Cubist sculpture made anywhere. Before World War I he moved to Paris, but left for the Netherlands when war broke out. He returned to Prague after the war. During the 1920s, he further developed his version of Synthetic Cubism and rejoined Mánes. Like many Czech modernists, he was active in design as well as in painting; in 1925 he designed paintings on glass for the Czechoslovak Pavilion at the International Exposition of Modern Industrial and Decorative Arts in Paris. In the late 1920s and early 1930s, Surrealist influence also began to show in his painting and sculpture, and he was a participant in Poesie 1932, an international exhibition in Prague that introduced Surrealism to the Czech public. He did not, however, become a Surrealist.
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The Eight: Maurice Prendergast

 The Porch with the Old Mosaics, St. Mark’s, Venice 1899

Venetian Canal Scene (1898-1899)

Boston Harbor, c.1900-c.1905

Maurice Brazil Prendergast (October 10, 1858 – February 1, 1924) was an American Post-Impressionist artist who worked in oil, watercolor, and monotype. He exhibited as a member of The Eight, though the delicacy of his compositions and mosaic-like beauty of his style differed from the artistic intentions and philosophy of the group.

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John French Sloan (4*)

Dunes at Annisquam

Sunset, West Twenty-Third Street - 1905-1906

Six O’Clock, Winter 1912

Tittering Girls, 1915

John French Sloan (August 2, 1871 – September 7, 1951) was an American artist. As a member of The Eight, he became a leading figure in the Ashcan School of realist artists. He was known for his urban genre painting and ability to capture the essence of neighborhood life in New York City, often through his window. Sloan has been called "the premier artist of the Ashcan School who painted the inexhaustible energy and life of New York City during the first decades of the twentieth century", and an "early twentieth-century realist painter who embraced the principles of socialism and placed his artistic talents at the service of those beliefs."

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American realism: Robert Henri

Robert Henri (American, 1865 – 1929)

The Beach, Concarneau (1899)

The Rain Clouds (Paris), 1902

Ship in the Bay, circa 1903

Rough Seas Near Lobster Point (1903)

Segovia, Spain (1906)

Evening Sky

West Coast of Ireland, 1913

Betalo Nude, 1916

Milwaukee Museum of Art, Milwaukee, Wisconsin

Mata Moana

Zara Levy, nude (1923)

Portrait of Sarah Burke (1924) 

oil on canvas 59.7 x 49.5 cm

Bernadita (1926)

Robert Henri (24 June 1865 – 12 July 1929) was an American painter and teacher. He was a leading figure of the Ashcan School of American realism and an organizer of the group known as "The Eight," a loose association of artists who protested the restrictive exhibition practices of the powerful, conservative National Academy of Design.

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