Modern Masters From Smithsonian Museum

Modern Masters From Smithsonian Museum
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Modern Masters from the Smithsonian American Art Museum features forty-three key paintings and sculptures by thirty-one of the most celebrated artists who came to maturity in the 1950s. Through three broadly-conceived themes that span two decades of creative genius —"Significant Gestures," "Optics and Order" and "New Images of Man"—Modern Masters examines the complex and heterogeneous nature of American abstract art in the mid-twentieth century.

Featured artists include Jim Dine, David Driskell, Sam Francis, Philip Guston, Grace Hartigan, Hans Hofmann, Franz Kline, Louise Nevelson, Anne Truitt and Esteban Vicente.

The exhibition travels to the Westmoreland Museum of American Art in Greensburg, Pennsylvania (through September 6, 2009), the Dayton Art Institute in Dayton, Ohio (July 23, 2010 – October 10, 2010), the Telfair Museum of Art in Savannah, Georgia (November 13, 2010 – February 5, 2011), the Cheekwood Botanical Garden and Museum of Art in Nashville, Tennesee (March 19, 2011 – June 19, 2011) and the Reynolda House Museum of American Art in Winston-Salem, North Carolina (October 7, 2011 – January 1, 2012).

The picture shows Richard Diebenkorn, Ocean Park, No. 6, 1968, oil on canvas, 92 x 72 in. (233.7 x 182.9 cm), Smithsonian American Art Museum, Gift of Arthur J. Levin in memory of his beloved wife Edith. -- www.americanart.si.edu

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