Don't miss the exhibit and the talk...@ the Neuberger

AMERICAN VANGUARDS:
GRAHAM, DAVIS, GORKY,
DE KOONING, AND THEIR CIRCLE,
1927–1942
 
 
JANUARY 29–APRIL 29, 2012
In the 1920s through 1940s, the enigmatic and charismatic John Graham (1886–1961) and his circle of New York artists, which included Stuart Davis, Arshile Gorky, and Willem de Kooning, helped redefine ideas of what painting and sculpture could be. They, along with others in Graham’s orbit, such as Jackson Pollock and David Smith, played a critical role in developing and defining American modernism.
 
American Vanguards showcases more than sixty works of art from this vital period that demonstrate the inter-connections, common sources, and shared stimuli among the members of Graham’s circle.
 
This exhibition, curated by notable scholars William C. Agee, Irving Sandler, and Karen Wilkin, will be accompanied by a fully illustrated catalogue co-published by the Addison and Yale University Press. This critical reconsideration sheds new light on the New York School, Abstract Expressionism, and the vitality of American modernism between the two world wars.
John Graham
(1887–1961)
Table Top Still Life with Bird, 1929
Oil on canvas, 32 x 39 in. (81.3 x 99.1 cm)

Collection of Tommy and Gill LiPuma, New York

AMERICAN VANGUARDS PANEL DISCUSSION
Sunday, March 4, 2 pm

William C. Agee, Irving Sandler, and Karen Wilkin, the three curators of American Vanguards: Graham, Davis, Gorky, de Kooning, and Their Circle, 1927-1942, discuss the exhibition; moderated by Tracy Fitzpatrick, Neuberger Museum of Art curator and Purchase College Associate Professor of Art History

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