American Moderns 1900-1950

American Moderns, 1900–1950 explores a dynamic period of creativity and cultural exchange between the United States and Europe. During the early twentieth century, artists on both sides of the Atlantic established bold new approaches to representation characterized by important innovations in terms of both content and form.

Selected works from the permanent collection of the Terra Foundation for the Arts, discussed here by Derrick R. Cartwright, Paul J. Karlstrom and Sophie Lévy, illuminate the key artistic movements—Cubism, Synchromism, Dadaism, Surrealism, Precisionism, Social Realism, and Abstract Expressionism—as well as some less well-known tendencies of this period.

American Moderns, 1900–1950 provides telling insights into how we, as spectators and critics, respond to and interpret the modern art of these critical years.