October 16, 2024 · 6pm-7:30pm
$25 members, $35 non-members
In the early decades of the twentieth century a group of young American artists turned their attention to the rapidly evolving urban landscape of cities like Philadelphia and New York. They filled their paintings with scenes of cafes, saloons, elevated street cars, skyscrapers, and bustling streets filled with immigrant families. They were not alone in their fascination with the new American city. Also inspired by these scenes were writers like Walt Whittman and John Dos Passos, Charley Chaplin in films like City Lights and Modern Times, W.C. Fields on the vaudeville stage, and heard in music like George Gershwin's Rhapsody in Blue. All reflect the broader interest in themes of an evolving America. Join us to explore this moment of rapid change in the United States through the paintings of Robert Henri, William Glackens, George Bellows, Edward Hopper and others.
George Bellows, The Lone Tenement, 1909, oil on canvas, National Gallery of Art, Washington D.C.
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