Oscar Bluemner: Forces of Nature and Industry

An early American modernist known for his expressive, at times psychological use of color, this exhibition instead focuses instead upon the artist’s bold, black-and-white contrasts and lyrical use of line. Bluemner rendered the powerful forces of nature with fluid, arcing geometries, while his architectural and industrial structures are rendered with a chunky, spare solidity. Both are combined with dramatic force in his building, bridge and landscape subjects from the mid-1930s.