November 20, 2020Harold PorcherModern & Post-War Art Happening November 30: Artists That Went Against The Grain Read more about Happening November 30: Artists That Went Against The Grain Starting with H.C. Westermann in Chicago and winding its way through other artists that made a practice of going against the grain, Swann Director of Modern & Post-War Art Harold Porcher will be in conversation with scholar Antonia Pocock, discussing Westermann, Hedda Sterne, Robert Therrien, Allan Kaprow, and Claes Oldenburg.
Read more about An Introduction to the Transcendental Painting Group June 12, 2020 Modern & Post-War Art An Introduction to the Transcendental Painting Group Modernism’s Arrival in the United States Modernism arrived in the United States in two waves. The first of these occurred in the dawn of the twentieth century, influenced by the…
Read more about Cultural Cross-Currents: The Indian Space Painters April 8, 2020 Modern & Post-War Art Cultural Cross-Currents: The Indian Space Painters The Indian Space Painters may be the modern artists most closely associated with Native American art. In Haida and Tlingit art, these American modernists found anthropomorphic interlocking subject matter that lent itself to the Surrealist abstraction they were already emulating in their own paintings.