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Painting
Boomtown
Thomas Hart Benton, 1889 - 1975
Benton, Thomas Hart
United States
1889 - 1975
Male
46 1/8 x 54 1/4 in. (117.2 x 137.8 cm)
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Egg yolk and oil
Egg yolk and oil
1928
1928
1928
1900-2000, 20th century, American Scene/Regionalism, cityscapes, Encyclopedia Britannica Collection, paintings
Painting
Early in his career, Thomas Hart Benton was involved in the American abstract movement, Synchromism. In the 1920s, Benton embarked on a style that incorporated Synchromist rhythmic line and expressive color with representational imagery of rural America. With this major shift in style, Benton established the Regionalist movement. Many consider Boomtown to be the artist’s first Regionalist masterpiece.
[Gallery label text, 2007]
Boomtown is one of the masterpieces of the Gallery's collection because of its impressive and unique depiction of an American landscape. When Thomas Hart Benton sketched this panoramic scene from a second floor window, the smoky fire on the horizon signified progress, not pollution. Borger, Texas was a boomtown that sprang to life in 1926 after a refinery company hit a gusher that produced 5000 gallons of oil a day.
Benton is one of the three major American Regionalists (the other two are Grant Wood and John Steuart Curry), so called because most of their subjects were about life in the rural heartland of America.
While Benton was not a fan of contemporary modernist painting, and in fact disdained artists who painted in the abstract style, he couldn't help but be influenced by the curvy and streamlined aesthetic of his times and the way in which artists were reinterpreting three-dimensional space. Consider the way in which the people, buildings and landscape are layered from top to bottom on the canvas, rather than being laid out carefully from front to back in the manner of traditional artistic renderings.
[Gallery label text, 2006]
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Painting
Beach at Blue Point
William Glackens, 1870 - 1938
Glackens, William
United States
1870 - 1938
Male
25 1/4 x 30 1/8 in. (64.1 x 76.5 cm)
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Oil
Oil
ca. 1915
1910
1920
1900-2000, 20th century, Ashcan School and friends, leisure activities, paintings, seascapes
Painting
Like many American painters, including Winslow Homer, William Glackens was an artist-reporter early in his career. He met Robert Henri in Philadelphia, shared a studio with him, and went to Paris with him in 1895. Upon Glackens's return, he moved to New York City. He exhibited with The Eight in 1908, and chaired the Armory Show in 1913. By 1914, he was devoting all of his time to painting, and espoused subjects like this one, colorful depictions of Americans at play. Many of his paintings reflect the influence of French impressionists, particularly Pierre Auguste Renoir.
[Gallery label text, 2003]
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1973.12
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Memorial Art Gallery
9/8/1999
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Painting
Pittsford on the Erie Canal
George Harvey, 1800 - 1878
Harvey, George
United States
1800 - 1878
Male
17 1/2 x 23 1/2 in. (44.5 x 59.7 cm)
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Oil
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1837
1837
1837
Painting
This scene is thought to be in the vicinity of King’s Bend Park just outside of Pittsford Village.
[Gallery label text, 2007]
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2005.33
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Memorial Art Gallery
5/20/2005
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Painting
Back from the Orchard
Eastman Johnson, 1824 - 1906
Johnson, Eastman
United States
1824 - 1906
Male
10 3/8 x 6 5/8 in. (26.4 x 16.8 cm)
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ca. 1876
1871
1881
1800-1900, 19th century, children, figure, paintings
Painting
lower right
1975.138
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Memorial Art Gallery
9/8/1999
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Painting
Summer Street Scene in Harlem
Jacob Lawrence, 1917 - 2000
Lawrence, Jacob
United States
1917 - 2000
Male
20 1/16 x 24 1/8 in. (51 x 61.2 cm)
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Tempera
1948
1948
1948
1900-2000, 20th century, cityscapes, Images of Black People, New York city, paintings, Social Realism
Painting
Jacob Lawrence put his own stylistic innovations on the flattened surfaces, distorted shapes, and bold colors of modernism. Here his vibrant palette and energetic composition express the joy and vitality of a summer in Harlem. Children play with their soap box and approach a shaved ice vendor; adults gather in conversation. Lawrence moved to Harlem with his family at the age of twelve, and he was greatly influenced by the creative community flourishing there.
Lawrence chronicled the lives, accomplishments, and challenges experienced by Black communities in the United States. His best-known series, The Migration of the Negro (1941), depicted the mass movement of Black people who relocated from the American South to the North, Midwest, and West in search of economic and social mobility. Lawrence’s parents themselves moved to the North in this exodus known as the Great Migration, which took place from the 1910s through the 1970s.
[Gallery label text, 2024]
lower rightback of panel, Undated; from 1974-75 exhibitionback of panel, partly covered by another labelback of panelback of panelback of panelback of panelback of panelback of panel, orange tag with black printing
Jacob and Gwendolyn Lawrence
1991.5
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Memorial Art Gallery
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