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5 unusual facts about Pop Hart


Pop Hart

His style varies: some works show affinity with the delicate expressiveness of John Marin and Cézanne, while others lean towards the brusquer social realism of Diego Rivera or Robert Henri.

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Hart's work is in the collections of the Museum of Modern Art, New York; the Brooklyn Museum; the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art; the Smithsonian Institution; the Los Angeles County Museum of Art; the British Museum, and other institutions in the United States and Europe.

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Eventually he landed in Chicago, where he worked for a while as an illustrator for a newspaper and also as a sign painter for the Chicago World's Fair of 1893 and other clients.

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Among his close friends in New York art circles were members of the Ashcan school of social realism, especially Robert Henri and John Sloan.

Walt Kuhn

He counted a number of cartoonists and illustrators among his friends, including Gus Mager and Pop Hart.



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