Modern (1900-1945)
A wide range of media and styles, from cubism and surrealism to American impressionism and regionalism, represent he first decades of the 20th century. The collection also features European examples, a smaller selection of Mexican and South American works, and strong holdings of prints, drawings, and photographs.
Unknown Mexican, Mexican
Our Lady of Guadalupe
Spanish Colonial-early 20th century
177.9.25704
Lewis Wickes Hine, American, 1874 - 1940
Breaker Boys
negative 1911, print 1911-1930
2005.12
Dorothea Lange, American, 1895 - 1965
White Angel Breadline, San Francisco
negative 1932, print 1940s
2005.14
Auguste Rodin, French, 1840 - 1917
The Creator (Self-Portrait)
modeled about 1899-1900; cast 1984
2005.68
Mike Disfarmer, American, 1884 - 1959
Homer, Laura, and Alton Jackson
February 26, 1940
2005.83.17
Henry W. Bannarn, American, 1910 - 1965
Midwife (Breath of Life)
about 1940
2006.31
Augusta Savage, American, 1892 - 1962
Gamin
modeled 1929; plaster by 1940
2006.75
Jackson Pollock, American, 1912 - 1956
Untitled (Bald Woman with Skeleton)
about 1938-1941
2006.93
Arnold Genthe, American (born Germany), 1869 - 1942
Arvia MacKaye (1902-1989) as a Child
about 1913
2007.78.1
Stephen Mopope, Ka'igwu / American, 1898 - 1974 | Ka'igwu (Kiowa) | Southern Plains | Plains
Wedding Ceremony; number 20, from the portfolio: Kiowa Indian Art, Watercolor Paintings in Color by the...
published 1929
2008.1.20
Nakota (Yankton Sioux) | Sioux | Central Plains | Plains | Unrecorded Iháŋktȟuŋwaŋna (Yanktonai) Dakota keeper | Matȟó Wakȟáŋ (Medicine Bear), Yanktonai, about 1842/47 - 1916
Waníyetu Wowápi Tȟá Matȟó Wakȟáŋ (The Winter Count of Medicine Bear), recording the years 1823-1917...
about 1917
2009.65
Man Ray, American, 1890 - 1976
Mathematical Object
1934-1936
2012.4
Marguerite Thompson Zorach, American, 1887 - 1968 | William Zorach, American (born Lithuania), 1889 - 1966
Mountain Stream
about 1917
2012.42
David Alfaro Siqueiros, Mexican, 1896 - 1974
Moises Saenz
1930
2012.49
José Clemente Orozco, Mexican, 1883 - 1949
The Elevated
1928
2013.38
Walker Evans, American, 1903 - 1975
Subway Passengers, New York City (Mother and Child)
negative April 28, 1938; print about 1938
2013.53
William Zorach, American (born Lithuania), 1889 - 1966
An American Family (Sailing; Provincetown)
1916
2013.80
Abastenia St. Leger Eberle, American, 1878 - 1942
Hurdy Gurdy Dancer
about 1909
2014.21
Ada Gilmore Chaffee, American, 1883 - 1955
Untitled (Two Figures with Cow, Provincetown ; Provincetown Scene with Couple and Cow)
about 1917-1918
2014.23
José Clemente Orozco, Mexican, 1883 - 1949
The Requiem (alternate titles: El Réquiem; Requiem; Velorio)
1928
2014.54
Henry Ossawa Tanner, American, 1859 - 1937
Étaples and the Canche River at Dusk (formerly titled Untitled (Dusk Scene of a Flooded River and Nearby...
about 1918
2014.76
Imogen Cunningham, American, 1883 - 1976
Aloe
negative 1920s; print 1970s
2014.8
Bessie Potter Vonnoh, American, 1872 - 1955
The Scarf
modeled 1908; cast about 1918
2014.99
Bill Traylor, American, about 1854 - 1949
House with Figures and Animals (House with Figures; House with Figures and Snake)
1939
d.2003.53
George Copeland Ault, American, 1891 - 1948
Back of Patchin Place
1927
d.935.1.98
George Wesley Bellows, American, 1882 - 1925
The Boardwalk (The Merry-Go-Round)
about 1915
d.940.20
John Sloan, American, 1871 - 1951
Family on Fire Escape (Ella was a Washtub Woman), drawing for illustration in "Hearst's International,"...
1922
d.946.12.3
Joseph Stella, American (born Italy), 1877 - 1946
Dying Lotus
about 1930-1932
d.952.133
John Sloan, American, 1871 - 1951
Ludlow, Colorado (Class War in Colorado), 1914, drawing for an illustration in "The New York Call,"...
1914
d.952.44
Charles Ephraim Burchfield, American, 1893 - 1967
Early Morning
1925
d.963.3
José Clemente Orozco, Mexican, 1883 - 1949
Study for The Departure of Quetzalcoatl (Panel 7) for The Epic of American Civilization
about 1932-1934
d.978.19
Paul Sample, American, 1896 - 1974
Will Bond
about 1948
d.983.34.7
José Clemente Orozco, Mexican, 1883 - 1949
Figure study for Modern Industrial Man (central panel, 2 of 3, Panel 20) for The Epic of American...
about 1930-1934
d.988.52.228
José Clemente Orozco, Mexican, 1883 - 1949
Transfer drawing of Head with Open Jaw for The Departure of Quetzalcoatl (Panel 7) for The Epic of...
1932-1934
d.988.52.77
Diego Rivera, Mexican, 1886 - 1957
Untitled (Portrait of a Girl with Orange Hair Bow)
about 1935
d.990.31
Edwin Walter Dickinson, American, 1891 - 1978
The Bee: Lothrup Weld's House
1943
d.991.15
Paul Cadmus, American, 1904 - 1999
Factory Worker: Francisco (Francisco Femenias)
1933
d.996.18
Rockwell Kent, American, 1882 - 1971
A New England Landscape (Oak Tree and Evergreen)
1903
p.2000.26
Irving Ramsey Wiles, American, 1861 - 1948
Emily Henderson Cowperthwaite
1902
p.2004.37
Frederic Remington, American, 1861 - 1909
Shotgun Hospitality
1908
p.909.2
Joseph Rodefer DeCamp, American, 1858 - 1923
Edward Tuck (1842-1938), Class of 1862
1919
p.920.4
José Clemente Orozco, Mexican, 1883 - 1949
The Epic of American Civilization: Migration (Panel 1)
1932-1934
p.934.13.1
Abraham Angel, Mexican, 1905 - 1924
Tepito Landscape (Paisaje Tepito)
1923
p.935.1.1
Max Weber, American (born Russia, now Poland), 1881 - 1961
Portrait (Cubist Portrait; Portrait of a Young Woman)
1911
p.935.1.74
Paul Sample, American, 1896 - 1974
Beaver Meadow
1939
p.943.126.1
John Sloan, American, 1871 - 1951
A Roof in Chelsea, New York
about 1941, with additions in 1945 and 1951
p.946.12.2
Ilse Martha Bischoff, American, 1901 - 1990
Harlem Loge
about 1934
p.948.35
Jared French, American, 1905 - 1988
Street Fight
1934
p.950.32.5
Preston Dickinson, American, 1891 - 1930
Industrial Landscape (The Suburbs; Modern Industry)
1919
p.950.64
Ernest L. Major, American, 1864 - 1950
The Closed Door
about 1914
p.951.82
John Sloan, American, 1871 - 1951
Self-Portrait, Working
1916
p.952.43
Ilse Martha Bischoff, American, 1901 - 1990
Picnic on the River
1937
p.959.108
John Sloan, American, 1871 - 1951
Floyd Dell
1914
p.959.141
Kay Sage, American, 1898 - 1963
The Giants Dance
1944
p.964.127
Paul Cadmus, American, 1904 - 1999
Francisco
1933 and 1940
p.969.64.4
Pablo Picasso, Spanish, 1881 - 1973
Guitar on a Table
1912
p.975.79
George L. K. Morris, American, 1905 - 1975
Composition - Times Square (Composition de Broadway)
1945
p.976.201
Ben Shahn, American (born Russia, now Lithuania), 1898 - 1969
Photographer’s Window (Contemporary American Photography 1935)
1939-1940
p.978.165
Paul Sample, American, 1896 - 1974
Waiting
1935-1936
p.983.34.185
Roland Dorcély, Haitian, 1930 - 2017
Mother and Son
before 1957
p.984.39.3
Frederick Carl Frieseke, American, 1874 - 1939
In the Library
about 1917
p.991.56
Willard Leroy Metcalf, American, 1858 - 1925
The First Thaw
1913
p.992.14
Georgia O'Keeffe, American, 1887 - 1986
Taos Mountain, New Mexico
1930
p.993.62
Abbott Handerson Thayer, American, 1849 - 1921
Below Mount Monadnock
about 1913
p.997.22
George Hurrell, American, 1904 - 1992
Joan Crawford for Sadie McKee, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM), 1934
about 1932
ph.2001.29.2
Hector García, Mexican, 1923 - 2012
Jose Clemente Orozco
1945
ph.2001.51.5
Margaret Bourke-White, American, 1904 - 1971
The American Way
1937, print before 1971
ph.972.65
Laura Gilpin, American, 1891 - 1979
Indian Bake Ovens, Taos
September 26, 1926
ph.982.51.6
Attributed to Edwin F. Townsend, American, 1879 - 1948
Nude Portrait, Probably Depicting Fred Ritter
early 1930s
ph.983.12.5
James Van Der Zee, American, 1886 - 1983
At Home (Woman with Flower Baskets)
1934
ph.986.47
Harold Eugene Edgerton, American, 1903 - 1990
Water From a Faucet
1932
ph.997.55.3
José Guadalupe Posada, Mexican, 1851 - 1913
The American Mosquito (El Mosquito Americano)
about 1904
pr.2002.42.1
Hiroshi Yoshida, Japanese, 1876 - 1950
Seta Bridge
1933
pr.2004.41.4
José Clemente Orozco, Mexican, 1883 - 1949
Inditos (Mexican Peasants Working)
1929
pr.930.15.1
Miguel Duclaud Covarrubias, Mexican, 1904 - 1957
Mexican Street Scene
about 1940
pr.943.15
Childe Hassam, American, 1859 - 1935
Washington's Birthday - 5th Avenue and 23rd Street
February 22, 1916
pr.954.20.237
Edward Hopper, American, 1882 - 1967
Evening Wind
1921
pr.956.26.5
Marius de Zayas, Mexican, 1880 - 1961
Title page, from the journal "291" (No. 1, March 1915) (portfolio)
1915
pr.960.79.1a
Pablo Picasso, Spanish, 1881 - 1973
Blind Minotaur Led by a Young Girl, III (Minotaure aveugle guide par une fillette, III), from The...
November 4, 1934
pr.965.23.92
José Clemente Orozco, Mexican, 1883 - 1949
Las Masas (The Masses)
1935
pr.985.40.1
José Clemente Orozco, Mexican, 1883 - 1949
Grief (Afliccion); The Peasant (El Campesino)
1930
pr.985.40.2
George Wesley Bellows, American, 1882 - 1925
Solitude
1917
pr.987.23
Howard Norton Cook, American, 1901 - 1980
Chrysler Building (Chrysler Building in Construction)
1930
pr.990.48
Edna Boies Hopkins, American, 1872 - 1937
Datura
about 1910
pr.997.47.1
Josep Renau, Mexican, 1907 - 1982
La Patria Mexicana Defendida por Sus Hijos
about 1944
ps.987.6.171
Arthur Putnam, American, 1873 - 1930
Puma and Snakes
1906
s.2001.51.2
Frederic Remington, American, 1861 - 1909
The Rattlesnake (Snake in the Path)
original 1905; cast about 1919-1920
s.960.13.1
Frederic Remington, American, 1861 - 1909
Bronco Buster
original 1895; cast about 1919-1920
s.960.13.2
Bessie Potter Vonnoh, American, 1872 - 1955
Mother and Child (Mother and Babe)
1902
s.964.57
Paul Manship, American, 1885 - 1966
Lyric Muse
1912
s.991.35
John Bernard Flannagan, American, 1895 - 1942
Head
1927
s.992.7
Charles Demuth, American, 1883 - 1935
Beach Study No. 3, Provincetown
1934
w.935.1.16
Carlos Mérida, Guatemalan (active in Mexico), 1891 - 1985
The Reapers (Les Moissoneurs)
1928
w.935.1.45
Marguerite Thompson Zorach, American, 1887 - 1968
Sixth Avenue "L"
1924
w.935.1.75
James Auchiah, Ka'igwu / American, 1906 - 1975 | Ka'igwu (Kiowa) | Southern Plains | Plains
Old Time War Dancer
1930
w.935.1.76
Velino Shije Herrera (Ma-Pe-Wi), Zia Pueblo / American, 1902 - 1973 | Southwest | Zia Pueblo (Tsia)
Rain Dance - Annual Fiesta - Zia Pueblo
about 1927
w.935.1.80
Stephen Mopope, Ka'igwu / American, 1898 - 1974 | Ka'igwu (Kiowa) | Southern Plains | Plains
Indian on Horseback
1930
w.935.1.82
Tonita Vigil Peña (Quah Ah), San Ildefonso Pueblo / American, 1893 - 1949 | San Ildefonso Pueblo (P'o-Woh-Ge-Owinge) | Southwest
Buffalo Dance
about 1925-1926
w.935.1.85
Tonita Vigil Peña (Quah Ah), San Ildefonso Pueblo / American, 1893 - 1949 | San Ildefonso Pueblo (P'o-Woh-Ge-Owinge) | Southwest
Basket Dance
1930-1931
w.935.1.86
Awa Tsireh (Alfonso Roybal), San Ildefonso Pueblo / American, 1898 - 1955 | San Ildefonso Pueblo (P'o-Woh-Ge-Owinge) | Southwest
Rainbow and Deer Design
1925-1930
w.935.1.96