Until 7 September 2008
Room 90
Admission free
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Louis Lozowick (1892–1973), New York, lithograph, c.1925.
© Lee Lozowick. More information
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Robert Gwathmey (1903–1988), The Hitchhiker, colour screenprint, 1937. © DACS, London/VAGA, New York 2007. More information
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Edward Hopper (1882–1967), Night on El Train, etching, 1918.
© Whitney Museum of American Art, New York. More information
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Edward Hopper (1882–1967), Evening Wind, etching, 1921.
© Whitney Museum of American Art, New York. More information
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Robert Riggs (1896–1970), Psychopathic Ward, lithograph, c1940. More information
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George Bellows (1882–1925), Business Men's Bath, lithograph, 1923.
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George Bellows (1882–1925), A Stag at Sharkey's, lithograph, 1917 More information.
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Martin Lewis (1880–1962), Spring Night, Greenwich Village, drypoint, 1930. © The estate of Martin Lewis, Courtesy Robert K. Newman, The Old Print Shop, Inc., New York. More information
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Martin Lewis (1880–1962), Little Penthouse, drypoint, 1931.
© The estate of Martin Lewis, Courtesy Robert K. Newman, The Old Print Shop, Inc., New York. More information
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John Sloan (1871–1951), Turning out the Light, etching, 1905.
© Kraushaar Galleries, New York More information
The American Scene features around 150 outstanding
prints by 74 leading modern American artists, including George
Bellows, Edward Hopper, Grant Wood, Josef Albers, Alexander Calder,
Louise Bourgeois and Jackson Pollock.
The first half of the 20th century was a period of great change
in America, and this exhibition examines American society and
culture through the prints produced by some of the most important
artists of the time.
The exhibition begins with John Sloan's Ashcan School etchings
of everyday urban experience in the 1900s and concludes with
Jackson Pollock and the triumph of abstract expressionism in the
1950s.
Many of the images in the intervening period explore the
changing urban landscape of New York, the onset of the Depression,
the romanticised visions of the American heartlands by the
Regionalists, the response to the rise of Fascism in Europe and
America’s entry into the Second World War.
All the works come from the British Museum’s own American print
collection, which is the most comprehensive outside the United
States covering this period.
Exhibition tour
Nottingham, Djanogly Art Gallery
28 February – 19 April 2009
Brighton Museum and Art Gallery
2 May – 31 August 2009
Manchester, Whitworth Art Gallery
19 September – 13 December 2009
Image: Louis Lozowick (1892–1973), New
York, lithograph, c.1925. © Lee Lozowick.