Below you'll find a list of all posts that have been tagged as “Modernism”
Between 2022 and the end of 2024, collector and scholar Martin Eidelberg gave the Metropolitan Museum of Art eighty late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century works of European ceramic art, most of them now on view in Making It Modern: European Ceramics from the Martin Eidelberg Collection. ⬬
n 1905 Florence Thornton Butt used a sixty-dollar loan to open a supermarket—Mrs. C. Butt’s Staple and Fancy Grocery in Kerrville, Texas. Today Charles Butt remains the head of the grocery chain (now known as H-E-B), but he is also a passionate art collector focusing on American modernism. ⬬
A different perspective of Southern art is on view at the Georgia Museum of Art.
This first retrospective assessment of the bohemian jeweler and self-promoter extraordinaire is late in coming
Waddell’s New York City apartment is filled with striking examples of American design from between the wars
A new book examines the singular work of an American Indian modernist.
Is less more? Or is too much never enough?
In 1933 Florida Governor David Sholtz wrote that the states various exhibits at Chicago’s Century of Progress exposition were “but the ‘Show Rooms of the state,'” adding, we further invite you to visit the ‘Play Ground of the Nation.'” The Florida Tropical House, constructed for the Home and Industrial Arts Group section of the exposition and built alongside ten other homes on the shores of Lake Michigan, was one such showroom.
The Wolfsonian’s exhibition Deco: Luxury to Mass Market offers an overview of this new aesthetic, presenting its unfamiliar dimensions and different iterations in Europe and across the Atlantic. Art deco is primarily characterized by an emphasis on surface decoration, symmetry, angularity, and stylization.
Electra Havemeyer Webb, the founder of the Shelburne Museum, was a collector of astonishingly wideranging interests. Her diversity of tastes is reflected in holdings that include carriages, decoys, weather vanes, and antique bedcoverings, as well as paintings by Manet, Courbet, and Monet, and the steamboat Ticonderoga. Yet with its pastoral Vermont setting and a campus dotted with examples of vernacular New England architecture, the museum is primarily associated by many with its outstanding collection of folk art and Americana.