Tour: American Realists of the Early 1900s

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Overview

With forty percent of the United States' population living in urban environments by 1900, the city began to replace the countryside as an intriguing subject for American writers and painters. Also, these city dwellers' demands for illustrated newspapers and magazines meant that many artists in the early twentieth century trained as sketch reporters who could quickly capture the action at fires or strikes, sports events or theater premieres.

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1	Robert Henri, Snow in New York, 1902
2	George Bellows, Both Members of This Club, 1909
3	George Bellows, The Lone Tenement, 1909
4	John Sloan, The City from Greenwich Village, 1922