On The Road
On The Road
Below is just a taste of the exhibitions traveling across the country by the Smithsonian Institution Traveling Exhibition Service (SITES). For information on more traveling exhibitions and to see if they are coming to a museum near you, visit www.sites.si.edu.
Modern Masters from the Smithsonian American Art Museum
Dayton Art Institute,
July 23, 2010-Oct. 13, 2010
Telfair Museum of Art,
Nov. 13, 2010-Feb. 5, 2011
Cheekwood Botanical Garden and Museum of Art,
March 19, 2011-June 19, 2011
Reynolda House Museum of American Art,
Oct. 7, 2011-Jan. 1, 2012
This exhibition features 43 key paintings and sculptures by 31 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.
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