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Art of the United States: 1900–1944

Art of the United States: 1900–1944

The Blanton’s collection demonstrates the plurality of styles in the art of the United States from the 1900s to 1940s. The gift of the collection of novelist James A. Michener and his wife Mari Sabusawa Michener forms the core of the Blanton’s holdings in this area. Figurative paintings by artists, including Thomas Hart Benton, Philip Evergood, Yasuo Kuniyoshi, Reginald Marsh, and Fletcher Martin, picture—and often comment on—the realities of everyday life. The impact of transatlantic exchange and rapid social and technological change inflects the new vocabularies of artists such as Stuart Davis, Arthur Garfield Dove, Arshile Gorky, and Max Weber, whose work represents the emergence of modernism in the U.S. The Blanton’s collection also includes nearly 100 paintings, sculpture, and works on paper depicting the American West, donated by University of Texas alumnus C.R. Smith.

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The Charge [A Cavalry Scrap]
Frederic Sackrider Remington
1906
Italian Tondo
Joseph Stella
1910
Woman in Brown
Manierre Dawson
circa 1912
New York at Night
Max Weber
1915
Synchromy in Purple Minor
Stanton Macdonald-Wright
1918
New Mexico Recollection #12
Marsden Hartley
1922-1923
Waitresses from the Sparhawk
Yasuo Kuniyoshi
1924–25
Landscape Without Words
Oscar Florianus Bluemner
1927
Still Life (Composition with Vegetables)
Arshile Gorky [born Vosdanig Adoian]
circa 1928
This image is for study only, and may not accurately represent the object’s true color or scale…
Richmond Barthé
circa 1933