Member Preview Days for At the Dawn of a New Age: Early Twentieth-Century American Modernism
Thurs, May 5, 2022
10:30 am–6 pm
Albert Bloch, Mountain, 1916. Oil on cardboard, 25 1/8 × 31 3/4 in. (63.8 × 80.6 cm) overall. Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; Blanche A. Haberman Bequest 69.40
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Floor 8, Skylight Galleries
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American artists greeted the twentieth century with a youthful confidence in progress and innovation. No longer content to replicate reality, they turned to vanguard styles as a way to communicate their excitement about an age that critic Walter Lippmann characterized as “bursting with new ideas, new plans, and new hopes.” With over sixty works by forty-five artists drawn primarily from the Whitney’s permanent collection, At the Dawn of a New Age offers an expanded understanding of the complexity of American art produced between 1900 and 1930 and recaptures the exuberant sense of freedom and experimentation that underlay it.
Thursday, May 5
10:30 am–6 pm
Friday, May 6
10:30 am–10 pm