MODERNISM ON THE MOVE
Works of the 1930s by European and American Artists    Oct 16 - Dec 11, 2009

Martha Parrish and James Reinish, Inc. is pleased to present an exhibition highlighting modernist works from the 1930s by both European and American artists.

From the turn of the 20th century when modernism first emerged, American artists traveled to Europe and especially Paris to study, absorb the latest developments and exhibit with their European colleagues at the Salons. The decade of the 1920s saw a crosscurrent of Americans moving back and forth between Paris and the U.S., as Man Ray, Calder, Noguchi and others became fixtures of the Paris art scene.

In the 1930s, a second generation of abstract artists emerged and took modernism in several directions. American artists continued to take up residence in Europe, but European artists also made the voyage to the United States. Matisse, Leger, Duchamp, Picabia, Hélion and Gleizes all traveled to or set up residence in the U.S., particularly in New York. Hans Hofmann, Lyonel Feininger and Josef Albers decided to move to the states permanently.

As the artists of the avant-garde circulated among the capitals of Europe and then back to the U.S. their interchanges led to the development of various new avenues of artistic exploration. Modernism diverged into neo-plastic abstraction, surrealism, biomorphic abstraction, photographic experimentation and combinations of visual and literary activity that pushed the modernist aesthetic in new directions.

The exhibition will include works by Archipenko, Calder, Diller, Domela, Hélion, Hofmann, Lipchitz, Marin, G.L.K. Morris, Miró, Man Ray, Roszak, David Smith, and others.

For further information or images please contact Jennifer Klaus at gallery@parrish-reinish.com, or 212/734-7332. Please visit our website at www.parrish-reinish.com.