Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden
"The Eight" and the Independent Tradition in American Art
January 13, 1983 – March 15, 1983
Celebrate the 75th anniversary of the legendary Eight exhibition, America's first organized assault on academic art. On view are 46 works dating from the turn of the century to the mid-1930s, as well as photographs and rare documents of the 1908 exhibition. Included are works by Robert Henri, John Sloan, William Glackens, George Luks, and Everett Shinn, of the "Ashcan School," and Arthur B. Davies, Ernest Lawson, and Maurice Prendergast.
