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The Modernist Impulse: Interpreting the Natural Setting 1900 - 1980 Apr 28 - Jun 19, 2009
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John Marin
Head of the Cape, Cape Split, Maine, 1942
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Alfred Henry Maurer
Landscape, 1906-1907
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Martha Parrish and James Reinish, Inc. is pleased to present an exhibition exploring the modernist response to the natural world. The exhibition begins with the American modernists of the Stieglitz circle such as John Marin, Marsden Hartley, Georgia O’Keeffe and Arthur Dove, who employed what were then the new languages of cubism, expressionism and abstraction in their interpretations of nature; it continues forward through the artists of the 1930s and 1940s such as George L.K. Morris and the precisionist Niles Spencer. The exhibition concludes with post-war artists such as Jean Dubuffet, represented by one of his psychological landscapes; Hans Hofmann, Milton Avery, Fairfield Porter and John Wesley, whose highly reductive seascape image with an appropriated cartoon character brings a new irony to the depiction of the natural world. Not intended to be comprehensive, the exhibition touches on some of the more important tendencies in the development of 20th century art seen through the focus of the artistic reaction to the natural setting.
MARTHA PARRISH & JAMES REINISH, INC.
Dealers in 19th and 20th Century American and European fine art
25 East 73rd Street / New York, NY 10021 / Tel212-734-7332 / Fax 212-734-7303
Monday-Friday 10-5:30 / Special viewings by appointment
www.parrish-reinish.com
For further information, please contact Jennifer Klaus
at 212-734-7332 or gallery@parrish-reinish.com.
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