Verbal Description Online: / At the Dawn of a New Age: Early Twentieth-Century American Modernism Fri, June 17, 2022, 10–11:30 am

Verbal Description Online:
At the Dawn of a New Age: Early Twentieth-Century American Modernism

Fri, June 17, 2022
10–11:30 am

A vibrant painting depicting an abstract landscape with a contrast of warm sandy foreground and cool blue mountainous background, featuring fluid shapes and bold outlines, signed by the artist in the lower left corner.
A vibrant painting depicting an abstract landscape with a contrast of warm sandy foreground and cool blue mountainous background, featuring fluid shapes and bold outlines, signed by the artist in the lower left corner.

Chiura Obata, Silence, Last Twilight on an Unknown Lake, Johnson Peak, 1930. Woodblock print, sheet: 13 1/4 × 17 15/16 in. (33.7 × 45.6 cm) Image: 11 × 15 11/16 in. (27.9 × 39.8 cm). Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; gift of Gyo Obata 2015.17. © Gyo Obata

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Verbal Description Online provides an opportunity for visitors who are blind or have low vision to experience the richness and diversity of twentieth- and twenty-first-century American art through vivid description. Ninety-minute sessions are free-of-charge and are offered monthly on Friday mornings through Zoom and over the phone. 

This session will focus on At the Dawn of a New Age: Early Twentieth-Century American Modernism.


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