John Sloan, The Show Case, (from the series "New York City Life"), 1905
John Sloan, Fun, One Cent (from the series "New York City Life"), 1905
John Sloan,Movies, Five Cents,1907
Everett Shinn,Shop Window,1903
Jacob Riis,Bandit’s Roost
Jacob Riis, Italian Mother and Baby, Ragpicker, New York, ca. 1889-1890.
Jacob Riis, quoted in Maren Stange, Symbols of Ideal Life: Social Documentary
Photography in America, 1890-1950, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1989, p.16
“The beauty of looking into these places without actually being present there is that the excursionist is spared the vulgar sounds and odious scents and repulsive exhibitions attendant upon such a personal examination.”
George Bellows,Cliffdwellers, 1913
George Bellows, Tin Can Battle, San Juan Hill, New York, 1907.
“. . . You can unmistakably discern a Jew by the walk, the flat foot, the turning out of the palm of the hand. . . You can tell an artist by the way he uses a thumb in place of the forefinger in describing a scene or picture. You can detect a convict by his clasped hands . . .”
William Glackens
D.W. Griffith, “The Italian Barber,” movie still
D.W. Griffith, “Romance of the Jewess,” movie still
John Sloan,Man and Monkey, 1905
William Glackens,Far From the Fresh Air Farm,1911
William Glackens,Washington Square, 1913Museum of Modern Art, New York