The Masses
1914
13 5/16 x 10 5/16 in. (33.8 x 26.2 cm)
Max Eastman
United States
(Canandaigua NY, 1883 - 1969, Bridgetown, Barbados)
Editor
George Bellows
United States
(Columbus, OH, 1882 - 1925, New York, NY)
Illustrator, 1914
B. Marsh Brewer (aka Bessie Marsh Brewer)
United States
(Toronto, Canada, 1883 - 1952, New York, NY)
Illustrator, Jan. 1914
John Sloan
United States
(Lock Haven, PA, 1871 - 1951, Hanover, NH)
Art editor and illustrator, 1914
Kenneth R. Chamberlain
United States
(Des Moines IA, 1891 - 1984, Riverside CA)
Illustrator, 1914
Henry J. Glintenkamp
United States
(Augusta, NJ, 1887 - 1946, New York, NY)
Illustrator, 1914
Richard Battle
United States
Illustrator, 1914
Stuart Davis
United States
(Philadelphia, PA, 1892 – 1964, New York, NY)
Illustrator, 1914
G. S. Sparks
United States
Illustrator, 1914
Arthur Young
United States
(Orangeville, IL, 1866 - 1943, New York, NY)
Illustrator, 1914
Maurice Becker
United States
(Niznij Novgorod, Russia, 1889 - 1975, Scranton, PA)
Illustrator, 1914
Charles A. Winter
United States
(Cincinnati, OH, 1869 - 1942)
Illustrator, 1914
Cornelia Barns
United States
(Philadelphia, PA, 1888 - 1941, Los Gatos, CA)
Illustrator, 1914
Glenn O. Coleman
United States
(Springfield, OH, 1887 - 1932, Long Beach, NY)
Illustrator, 1914
R.W. Manning
United States
Illustrator, 1914
Morris Hall Pancoast
United States
(Salem, NJ, 1877 - 1963, Rockport, MA?)
Illustrator, 1914
Djuna Barnes
United States
(Cornwall-on-Hudson, NY, 1892 - 1982, New York, NY)
Illustrator, 1914
Frank M. Walts
United States
(Lima Township, IN, 1877 - 1941, New York, NY)
Illustrator, 1914
Elizabeth Lansing Greig
United States
(Denver, CO, 1889 - 1988, Huntington, NY)
Illustrator, 1914
Fred Zumwalt
United States
(Nebo, IL, 1883 - 1939, Cottage Hills, IL)
Illustrator, 1914
Alice Beach Winter
United States
(Greenridge, MO, 1877 - 1970, Gloucester, MA)
Illustrator, 1914
Boardman Robinson
United States
(Somerset, Nova Scotia, 1876 - 1952, Colorado Springs, CO)
Illustrator, 1914
Andree Ruellan
United States
(New York, NY, 1905 - 2006, Kingston, NY)
Illustrator, 1914
H. J. Turner
United States
Illustrator, 1914
O. E. Cesare
United States
(Linköping, Sweden, 1885 - 1948, Stamford, CT)
Illustrator, 1914
Josephine Nivison
United States
(New York, NY, 1883 - 1968, Nyack, NY)
Illustrator, 1914
Isa Urquhart Glenn
United States
(Atlanta, GA, 1874 - 1951, Alexandria, VA)
Illustrator, 1914
Oliver Herford
United States
(Sheffield, England, 1863 - 1935, New York, NY)
Illustrator, 1914
G. Golder
United States
Illustrator, 1914
Walter J. Enright
United States
(Chicago, IL, 1879 - 1969, Delray Beach, FL)
Illustrator, 1914
John Barber
United States
(Galati, Romania, 1898 - 1965, Philadelphia, PA)
Illustrator, 1914
Object Type:
Book
Medium and Support:
Offset lithograph
Credit Line:
Tribute Fund
Accession Number:
1995.42
Location: Not currently on view
Book Title:
The Masses
Bound book of 12 magazine issues with covers, January 1914 - December 1914.
The Masses was a radical journal published between 1911 and 1917. In the words of its editorial board, “This Magazine is Owned and Published Cooperatively by Its Editors...A Revolutionary and not a Reform Magazine; a Magazine with a Sense of Humor and No Respect for the Respectable; Frank; Arrogant; Impertinent; searching for the True Causes; a Magazine directed against Rigidity and Dogma wherever it is found...”
Stuart Davis, a friend of many of the “Ashcan” painters whose work appeared in The Masses, joined its editorial board in 1913 and resigned during the artists’ strike in 1916. The realistic style of this period of Davis’ work stands in sharp contrast to his later abstractions.
[Gallery label text, 1996]