Dorothea Tanning
in ‘Modern Times: American Art, 1910 - 1950’, Philadelphia Museum of Art
18 April – 3 September 2018
Dorothea Tanning, Birthday, 1942. Courtesy: Philadelphia Museum of Art; © Artists Rights Society, New York, and ADAGP, Paris
Dorothea Tanning is included in ‘Modern Times: American Art, 1910-1950’, on view at the Philadelphia Museum of Art from 18 April – 3 September 2018.
From jazz and the jitterbug to assembly lines and skylines: the early twentieth century was a time of great social, artistic, and technological change. Artists responded with a revolutionary language of shapes and colours. The exhibition demonstrates how artists such as Georgia O’Keeffe, Marsden Hartley, Jacob Lawrence, and others challenged convention and forged bold new styles to fit the times.
Curated by Jessica Todd Smith, The Susan Gray Detweiler Curator of American Art and Manager of the Center for American Art at the Philadelphia Museum of Art, the museum have published an accompanying monograph, American Modernism: Highlights from the Philadelphia Museum of Art (2018).