Eight, The
A group of eight American painters (Henri, Shinn, Luks, Sloan, Glackens, Prendergast, Lawson, Davies), formed in 1907 as a movement of protest against the National Academy. The members of this group had differences in their stylistic point of view and exhibited together only once (in 1908). What connected them was mainly the desire for independence from the National Academy and the tendency to support the progressive elements in art. Their role in organizing the exhibition of the Armoury and in Founding the Society of Independent Artists, in 1917, has been important.