The Eight
A group of American
painters who united to oppose various traditions upheld by the
National Academy. They exhibited together only once-- in 1908, but
the effect of their gesture was to strengthen the advance of Modernism
in the United States. The Eight included five painters associated
with the Ashcan school: Robert
Henri (1865-1929), George Luks (1867-1933), William Glackens
(1870-1938), John Sloan (1871-1951), and Everett Shinn (1876-1953),
along with Maurice Prendergast (1859-1924), Ernest Lawson
(1873-1939), and Arthur Bowen Davies (1862-1928).
Representative
painters:
Maurice Brazil
Prendergast, Arthur Bowen Davies, Robert Henri, George Luks, William
James Glackens, John Sloan, Ernest Lawson, Everett Shinn,