Painting Since WWI

Painting Since WWI Painting Since WWI

American students in Paris during the early years of the century experienced directly the work of Paul Cézanne, the Fauves, and Pablo Picasso, as well as other early forms of abstraction. Beginning in 1908, the photographer Alfred Stieglitz began to show in his Photo-Secession Gallery in New York City the work of John Marin, Arthur Dove, Max Weber, and other innovative American artists.

For a brief period after World War I, American artists participated in variations on the cubist movement. Joseph Stella took up Italian futurism, celebrating motion and industrial forms in his monumental Brooklyn Bridge (1919, Yale University Gallery). Georgia O'Keeffe turned to nearly abstract composition, based on the bold forms and flowing lines of flowers and southwestern artifacts, which occupied her throughout her long career.

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