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Movement · 1870s

American Realism

American realism depicted contemporary social life and the everyday activities of ordinary people. In painting it became an important tendency in the early 20th century, as a new generation turned to the life of the growing cities.

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Exhibition · Macbeth Galleries, New York · 1908

The Eight

Henri, Glackens, Luks, Shinn, Sloan, Prendergast, Lawson and Davies showed together in 1908 against the National Academy. George Bellows was Robert Henri's student, not one of the Eight.

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