| Featured Exhibition |
Modern Masters from the Smithsonian American Art Museum
Sunday June 14, 2009 - Sunday September 06, 2009
Robert Motherwell (1915-1991)
Wall Painting III, 1952
oil on fiberboard
Smithsonian American Art Museum, Gift of Dedalus Foundation and museum purchase made possible by the American Art Forum |
MACK-WOODS MARCHAND GALLERIES
This exhibition examines the complex and heterogeneous nature of American art in the mid-twentieth century. Featuring thirty-one of the most celebrated artists who came to maturity in the 1950s, the exhibition traces the history of this epochal period through forty-three key paintings and sculpture selected from the Smithsonian American Art Museum's collection. The exhibition is organized according to three broad themes. Grand Gestures explores the autographic mark, executed in sweeping strokes of brilliant color which became the expressive vehicle for Franz Kline, Hans Hofmann, Sam Francis, Joan Mitchell and others. Optics and Order highlights the work of Josef Albers, his exploration of mathematical proportion and carefully balanced color, and the artists who built on his ideas including Ilya Bolotowsky, Ad Reinhardt, and Louise Nevelson, among others. New Images of Man includes the work of Romare Bearden, Larry Rivers, Jim Dine, and Grace Hartigan, and others, who searched their surroundings and personal lives for vignettes of larger, universal concerns.
The William R. Kenan, Jr. Endowment Fund, the C. F. Foundation in Atlanta, and members of the Smithsonian Council for American Art have generously contributed to Modern Masters from the Smithsonian American Art Museum.
This Westmoreland Fiftieth Anniversary exhibition is locally sponsored by Allegheny Energy, Eden Hall Foundation, and Richard M. Scaife.
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