The American Scene : Prints from Hopper to Pollock
The British Museum
The American Scene : Prints from Hopper to Pollock
Until 7 September 2008
The exhibition is on view in Room 90/ Free
The American Scene features around 150 outstanding prints by 74 leading modern American artists, including George Bellows, Edward Hopper, Grant Wood, Josef Albers, Alexander Calder, Louise Bourgeois and Jackson Pollock.
The Fifth Column: Artist: Hugo Gellert, 1943,
Colour Screenprint.
Copyright: Courtesy of the Mary Ryan Gallery, New York
The first half of the 20th century was a period of great change in America, and this exhibition examines American society and culture through the prints produced by some of the most important artists of the time.
The exhibition begins with John Sloan’s Ashcan School etchings of everyday urban experience in the 1900s and concludes with Jackson Pollock and the triumph of abstract expressionism in the 1950s.
Hitch-hiker; 1937. Artist: Robert Gwathmey.
Colour screenprint.
Copyright DACS 2008
Share Croppers; 1944. Artist: Robert Gwathmey.
Colour screenprint.
Copyright DACS 2008
Combo: Artist: James McConnell, 1951
Colour Screenprint.
Many of the images in the intervening period explore the changing urban landscape of New York, the onset of the Depression, the romanticised visions of the American heartlands by the Regionalists, the response to the rise of Fascism in Europe and America’s entry into the Second World War.
All the works come from the British Museum’s own American print collection, which is the most comprehensive outside the United States covering this period.
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