Surrealism

right side

André Breton, Valentine Hugo, Greta Knutson, and

Tristan Tzara

Exquisite Corpse

c. 1930

Ink on paper

9-1⁄4 × 12-1⁄4”

Morton G. Neumann Family Collection

[Fig. 14-01]

Max Ernst

Two Children Are Threatened by a Nightingale

1924

Oil on wood with wood construction

27-1⁄2 × 22-1⁄2 × 4-1⁄2”

(The Museum of Modern Art, New York

[Fig. 14-05]

Max Ernst

The Horde

1927

Oil on canvas

44-7⁄8 × 57-1⁄2”

Stedelijk Museum

Amsterdam.

[Fig. 14-06]

Joan Miró

Carnival of Harlequin

1924–25

Oil on canvas

26 × 36-5⁄8”

Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo

New York

[Fig. 14-10]

Joan Miró

Object

1936

Assemblage: stuffed parrot on wooden perch, stuffed silk stocking with velvet garter and doll’s paper shoe

suspended in hollow wooden frame, derby hat, hanging cork ball, celluloid fish, and engraved map

31-7⁄8 × 11-7⁄8 × 10-1⁄4”

The Museum of Modern Art, New York

[Fig. 14-13]

Joan Miró

The Poetess from the series Constellations

December 31, 1940

Gouache and oil wash on paper

15 × 18”

Private collection

[Fig. 14-14]

Salvador Dali

Salvador Dalí

Persistance de la mémoire

(The Persistence of Memory)

1931

Oil on canvas

9-1⁄2 × 13”

The Museum of Modern Art, New

York

[Fig. 14-19]

Salvador Dalí

Soft Construction with Boiled Beans: Premonitions of Civil War

1936

Oil on canvas

39-1⁄4 × 39”

Philadelphia Museum of Art

[Fig. 14-21]

René Magritte

The Human Condition

1933

Oil on canvas

39-3⁄8 × 31-7⁄8”

National Gallery of Art Washington, D.C.

[Fig. 14-23]

MeretOppenheim

Object (Le Déjeuner en

fourrure) (Luncheon in Fur)

1936Fur-covered cup

diameter 4-3⁄8” saucer, diameter

9-3⁄8” spoon, length 8” Overall height 2-

7⁄8” The Museum of

Modern Art New York

[Fig. 14-29]

Leonora Carrington

Self-Portrait (The White Horse Inn)

1936–37

Oil on canvas

25-1⁄2 × 32-1⁄8”

The Metropolitan Museum of Art

New York

[Fig. 14-33]

Remedios Varo

Creation of the Birds

1957

Oil on Masonite

20 5/8” x 24 5/8”

Private Collection

Alberto Giacometti Femme égorgée (Woman with Her Throat Cut)1932 (cast 1949) Bronze 8 × 34-1⁄2 × 25”

The Museum of Modern Art, New York [Fig. 14-46]

Alberto Giacometti

Objet invisible (Mains Tenant le Vide) (Invisible Object/Hands Holding the Void)

1934

Plaster

height 61-1⁄2”

Yale University Art GalleryNew Haven

[Fig. 14-48]

Eugène Atget

Magasinavenue des Gobelins

1925

Albumen-silver print

9-3⁄8 × 7”

The Museum of Modern Art, New York

[Fig. 14-51]

André Kertész

Distortion No. 4

1933

Gelatin-silver print

[Fig. 14-55]

American Art Before WWII

Romaine Brooks

Self-Portrait

1923

Oil on canvas

46-1⁄4 × 26-7⁄8”

National Museum of American ArtWashington, D.C.

[Fig. 15-01]

John Sloan

Hairdresser’s Window

1907

Oil on canvas

31-7⁄8 × 26”

Wadsworth Atheneum, Hartford, Connecticut

[Fig. 15-02]

Jacob A. Riis

“Five Cents a Spot”

Lodging House, Bayard Street

c. 1889

Gelatin-silver print

Museum of the City of New York

[Fig. 15-05]

Edward Steichen

Balzac The Silhouette—4 a.m.

1908

Gum bichromate print

14-15⁄16 × 18-1⁄8”

The Metropolitan Museum of Art

New York

[Fig. 15-08]

Max Weber

Chinese Restaurant

1915

Oil on canvas

40 × 48”

Whitney Museum of American Art

New York

[Fig. 15-10]

Arthur G. Dove

Goin’ Fishin’

1925

Assemblage of bamboo, denim shirtsleeve buttons, wood and oil on wood panel

19-1⁄2 × 24”

The Phillips CollectionWashington, D.C.

[Fig. 15-14]

Georgia O’Keeffe

Cow’s Skull with Calico Roses

1931

Oil on canvas

35-7⁄8 × 24”

The Art Institute of Chicago.

[Fig. 15-17]

Ansel Adams

Frozen Lakes and Cliffs

The Sierra Nevada

Sequoia National Park

California

1932

Gelatin-silver print

[Fig. 15-20]

Charles Demuth

The Figure 5 in Gold

1928

Oil on composition board

36 × 29-3⁄4”

The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

[Fig. 15-27]

Charles Sheeler Rolling Power1939 Oil on canvas 15 × 30”

Smith College Museum of Art, Northampton, MA. [Fig. 15-25]

Charles Demuth

Rooftops and Trees

1918

Watercolor and graphite on paper

10 × 14”

Corcoran Gallery of Art

Washington, D.C.

[Fig. 15-26]

Thomas Hart Benton

City Building

from the mural series America Today

1930 Distemper and egg tempera

on gessoed linen with oil glaze

7’ 8” × 9’ 9”

Collection the Equitable Life Assurance Society of the

United States [Fig. 15-30]

Edward Hopper Early Sunday Morning1930 Oil on canvas 35 × 60”

Whitney Museum of American Art, New York [Fig. 15-32]

Jacob Lawrence

The Migration series

Panel No. 1: During World War

I there was a great migration

north by Southern African Americans

1940–41 Casein tempera on

hardboard

12 × 18”

The Phillips Collection,

Washington, D.C.[Fig. 15-35]

Dorothea Lange

Migrant Mother

1936

Gelatin-silver print

Library of CongressWashington, D.C.

[Fig. 15-39]

Diego Rivera

Flower Day

1925

Oil on canvas

58 × 47-1⁄2”

Los Angeles County Museum of Art

[Fig. 15-45]

Top center

Top sides

Center bottom

Frida Kahlo

Self-Portrait on the Border

Between Mexico and the United States

1932

Oil on sheet metal

12-1⁄4 × 13-3⁄4”

Private collection

[Fig. 15-49]

Stuart Davis

Report from Rockport

1940

Oil on canvas

24 × 30”

The Metropolitan Museum of Art

New York

[Fig. 15-54]

Gaston Lachaise

Standing Woman

1912–27

Bronze

height 70”

Albright-Knox Art GalleryBuffalo, NY

[Fig. 15-59]

André Kertész

Alexander Calder with his Circus

(“Cirque Calder”)

1929

Portrait GallerySmithsonian Institution

Washington, D.C.

[Fig. 15-62]

Alexander Calder

Lobster Trapand Fish Tail

1939

Hanging mobile: painted steel wire and

sheet aluminum

approximately 8’ 6” high × 9’ 6” diameter

The Museum of Modern ArtNew York

[Fig. 15-66]