Mary Lizzie Macomber was among the late nineteenth-century American artists who closely emulated the figurative work of the Pre-Raphaelites
Openings and Closings: March 2 to March 8
Check out what’s going on this week at museums across the country!
Embodied ideals
How John Sloan used the nude as a vehicle for artistic experimentation and political expression.
The Society of Independent Artists at the Delaware Art Museum
Formed by a group of vanguard modern artists—including Marcel Duchamp, John Sloan, and William Glackens, among others—the association sought to provide artists—little known and renowned, figurative and abstract—the opportunity to present their paintings in annual exhibitions.
French Twist: Masterworks of Photography from Atget to Man Ray
As with painters and sculptors, ambitious young photographers from around the world flocked to Paris between the World Wars. Some used photography to document the old ways of life; others, to celebrate the new. Some have enjoyed continuous acclaim, while others were forgotten for decades. Some saw themselves as part of a movement, such as surrealism, modernism, or a new …