Hirshhorn Plaza

Celebrating the 75th anniversary of the legendary Eight exhibition, America’s first organized assault on academic art, on view were 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 were 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.