American Realists at Washington National Gallery and at Phillips

A room in the West Wing of the Washington National Gallery with works by George Bellows, Edward Hopper, Andrew Wyeth, Robert Henri, John Sloan, Marsden Hartley. I promise for tomorrow to post some close ups on Cape Cod Evening of Hopper.

George Bellows- New York, 1911
oil on canvas
Washington National Gallery of Art

George Bellows - Blue Morning, 1909
oil on canvas
Washington National Gallery of Art

(Washington DC National Gallery of Art)

And here is another video: Robert Henri, Arthur B. Davies, John Sloan, George Luks, Guy Pène du Bois, Maurice Prendergast, The Eight gathered in a room at the Phillips Collection. I like most The Wake of the Ferry by Sloan: it reminds me my daily trips with the Staten Island Ferry , some years ago.

What makes John Sloan's The Wake of the Ferry II (1907) at the Phillips Collection unlike other seascapes is that it is so urban. It has the fog, and sea foam, and the wetness of decks, and the roll of the Atlantic Ocean, and its chill. Still, its metal rectangles, its guardrails and stanchions, hint distinctly at Manhattan (W Post).

(Washington DC National Gallery of Art)

(Phillips Collection)