Selections from a History of Modernism

The works on view—by Willem De Kooning, Arthur Dove, Hans Hofmann, Franz Kline, Robert Motherwell, and William Turnbull—encourage reflection on mid-century abstraction and its interpretative challenges. 

This mini-exhibition allows us to examine how artists arrived at surprising effects through their creative use of materials, techniques, sizes, and scales. It also prompts us to explore how it is these artists could produce significant works without recourse to identifiable subjects or figuration.

Credit: Exhibition overview from museum website.