"American Moderns," 1910-1960: From O’Keefe to Rockwell is the new exhibition on view at Joslyn Art Museum through May 17th
Toby Jurovics, Chief Curator and Holland Curator of American Western Art, says the 50 paintings and two sculptures are drawn from the Joslyn’s partners at the Brooklyn Museum.
The exhibition is divided into six sections that look at the different aspects of conversations artists were having in the first half of the century.
These include “Cubist Experiments,” “Modern Structures,” and “The Still Life Revisited.” Jurovics says it’s interesting to see how each artist addressed these areas.
"Particularly in the group of still lifes we have where you can see some people painting in this very avant garde modernist style and other artists looking at this theme with a much more traditional representational approach. And I think what the exhibition does is show there were multiple currents in this river even if we might like to identify one or two main themes.”
Jurovics says the exhibition looks at the way American artists adopted and absorbed the most important and forward thinking elements of European Modernism and made them into something wholly unique and American.