Modernisms
15 Apr 2007 - 13 Jan 2008
Joseph Stella, The Brooklyn Bridge: Variation on an Old Theme, 1939, Oil on canvas, 70 x 42 in. (177.8 x 106.7 cm). Purchase 42.15
Modernisms
April 15, 2007 - January 13, 2008
Modernisms, a fifth-floor presentation of works from the collection, looks mainly at artists working in the first half of the 20th century — George Bellows, Thomas Hart Benton, Paul Cadmus, Alexander Calder, Ralston Crawford, Charles Demuth, Marsden Hartley, Georgia O'Keeffe, Charles Sheeler, and John Sloan, among others — artists whose works, both figurative and abstract, pushed the margins of American art outward. This presentation reflects the multiple strands of modernism that characterize 20th-century American art. Organized in a loose chronology and in broad historical categories, it recognizes that various "modernisms" overlap, crossover, and intermingle in subject matter, process, thought, and material.
April 15, 2007 - January 13, 2008
Modernisms, a fifth-floor presentation of works from the collection, looks mainly at artists working in the first half of the 20th century — George Bellows, Thomas Hart Benton, Paul Cadmus, Alexander Calder, Ralston Crawford, Charles Demuth, Marsden Hartley, Georgia O'Keeffe, Charles Sheeler, and John Sloan, among others — artists whose works, both figurative and abstract, pushed the margins of American art outward. This presentation reflects the multiple strands of modernism that characterize 20th-century American art. Organized in a loose chronology and in broad historical categories, it recognizes that various "modernisms" overlap, crossover, and intermingle in subject matter, process, thought, and material.