own independent exhibition, marketing it as an American Salon des Refusés. In February 1908 eight painters showcased their work at the Macbeth Galleries. The Eight, as critic James Huneker baptized them, included Henri, Sloan, Glackens, Luks, and Shinn-the Philadelphia Five-and three others, stylistically different but equally determined to crack open NAD's restrictive practices: symbolist Arthur B. Davies {who was well wired into wealthy New York collector circles}, Impressionist/realist Ernest Lawson, and Postimpressionist Maurice Prendergast. {Davies and Lawson had been among the blackballed in 1907.}
( Mike Wallace )
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