American Moderns on Paper: Masterworks from the Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art

February 27, 2010–May 30, 2010

Savor the opportunity to view the finest watercolors, pastels, and drawings by leading avant-garde American artists of the early 20th century. This February, these rarely seen artworks, from America’s oldest public art museum, will travel to the Carter in the exhibition American Moderns on Paper: Masterworks from the Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art. Artists represented include Stuart Davis, Edward Hopper, Georgia O’Keeffe, and Andrew Wyeth.

Complementing the Amon Carter Museum’s own modernist holdings, American Moderns on Paper: Masterworks from the Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art provides a groundbreaking new look at the varied directions pursued by modern American artists from 1910 to 1960. Capturing the restless, spontaneous, and confident American spirit, the exhibition examines progressive art movements such as Surrealism, Abstract Expressionism and Neo-Romanticism.

American Moderns on Paper: Masterworks from the Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art was organized by the Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art, Hartford, Connecticut, and made possible by the National Endowment for the Arts as part of American Masterpieces: Three Centuries of Artistic Genius and the Henry Luce Foundation. The exhibition will also be on view at the Portland Museum of Art, Portland, Maine, from June 22 through September 12, 2010. It will conclude at the Wadsworth in October 2010.

Support for the Fort Worth presentation of this exhibition is provided by the Star-Telegram, WFAA and American Airlines.