- Albright, Ivan
- Baer, George
- Bellows, George
- Benton, Thomas Hart
- Bluemner, Oscar F.
- Bruce, Patrick Henry
- Curry, John Steuart
- Davies, Arthur B.
- Davis, Stuart
- Dearth, Henry Golden
- Dodd, Lamar
- Douglas, Aaron
- Dove, Arthur
- Emmet, Lydia Field
- Hartley, Marsden
- Henri, Robert
- Hopper, Edward
- Jonson, Raymond
- Kent, Rockwell
- Kuhn, Walt
- Kuniyoshi, Yasuo
- Marin, John
- Marsh, Reginald
- Myers, Jerome
- O'Keeffe, Georgia
- Pène du Bois, Guy
- Pippin, Horace
- Prendergast, Maurice
- Sheeler, Charles
- Sloan, John
- Soyer, Raphael
- Steichen, Edward
- Tucker, Allen
- Weber, Max
- Wood, Grant
- Show all works
- The Aero
- Anne with a Japanese Parasol
- Bather Seated on Rocks
- Berlin Abstraction
- Bizarre
- Blue Morning
- Both Members of This Club
- Buildings with Snowbank, Cliffside, New Jersey
- Cape Cod Evening
- Catharine
- Circus Elephants
- Citadel
- The City from Greenwich Village
- Classic Landscape
- Club Night
- Corn and Winter Wheat
- Cows in Pasture
- Flecks of Foam
- Florence Sittenham Davey (Mrs. Randall Davey)
- Forty-two Kids
- Green Apples and Scoop
- Grey Sea
- Ground Swell
- Hallway, Italian Restaurant
- Harriet Lancashire White (Mrs. Edward Laurence White) and Her Children, Sarah and Laurence
- Haying
- House with Dutch Roof
- Imagination
- Indian Girl in White Blanket
- Into Bondage
- Jack-in-Pulpit Abstraction - No. 5
- Jack-in-Pulpit - No. 2
- Jack-in-the-Pulpit No. 3
- Jack-in-the-Pulpit No. IV
- Jack-in-the-Pulpit No. VI
- The Judgment Day
- Landscape No. 5
- Landscape with Figures
- La Rue de la Santé
- Le Tournesol (The Sunflower)
- Life on the East Side
- Line and Curve
- Little Girl in White (Queenie Burnett)
- The Lone Tenement
- Maine Woods
- Marie Jane Hughes Marin (Mrs. John Marin)
- Masouba
- Maud Murray Dale (Mrs. Chester Dale)
- Moon
- Moth Dance
- Mount Katahdin, Maine
- Multiple Views
- My Family
- New Road
- New York
- Nude with Red Hair
- Olivia
- Peinture/Nature Morte
- Pierrot Tired
- The Politicians
- A Railroad Station Waiting Room
- Rush Hour, New York
- School Studies
- Smokehounds
- Snow in New York
- Space Divided by Line Motive
- Stars and Dews and Dreams of Night
- Study for "Swing Landscape"
- There Were No Flowers Tonight
- Trail Riders
- Variations on a Rhythm--U
- Volendam Street Scene
- The White Clown
- Winter Valley
- The Written Sea
- Yeats at Petitpas'
- Young Woman in White
The first curator of the National Gallery of Art, John Walker, and three of its early trustees—Chester Dale, Duncan Phillips, and Paul Mellon—established a commitment to the field of American 20th-century art that has continued to the present day. If American contemporary art was far from a top priority when the Gallery opened in 1941, these “conservative” modernists nonetheless managed to set precedents that proved to be durable and effective. The masterpieces by
American Paintings, 1900–1945, the third catalog in the Gallery’s Online Editions, was first launched to coincide with an important new chapter in the display of modern art at the Gallery: the inauguration of a suite of galleries devoted to American modernism in the fall of 2016. Part of a comprehensive reinstallation of the renovated and expanded East Building, the three galleries, for the first time in the institution’s history, unite masterworks by the leading artists of the Henri and Stieglitz circles with related masterpieces drawn from the Gallery’s rich collections of photographs and drawings. Major oils by
The detailed entries and scholarly apparatuses compiled by Robert Torchia, the catalog’s primary author, are supplemented by contributions from National Gallery of Art curators and other prominent art historians. As online publishing continues to evolve, the catalog promises to become a dynamic tool for both scholars and the general public to actively engage with the Gallery’s permanent collection and to further their understanding of early 20th-century American art.
Modern American Prints and Drawings from the Kainen Collection
Andrew Wyeth: Looking Out, Looking In
American Modernism: The Shein Collection
Drawing on America's Past: Folk Art, Modernism, and the Index of American Design
Alfred Stieglitz: Known and Unknown
A Century of Drawing: Works on Paper from Degas to LeWitt
Modern Art and America: Alfred Stieglitz and His New York Galleries
Max Weber's Modern Vision: Selections from the
National Gallery of Art and Related Collections
Selections and Transformations: The Art of John Marin
New York Interpreted: Joseph Stella, Alfred Stieglitz
Monotypes by Maurice Prendergast from the Terra Museum of American Art
Photographs by Alfred Stieglitz
Photographs by Alfred Stieglitz from the Alfred Stieglitz Collection of the National Gallery of Art