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),
Ernst Lawson (1873-1939), and
Arthur Bowen Davies (1862-1928).