Journey Through Modern Art : Journey Through Modern Art
Short on time, but want to explore the history of modern art through the AKG’s dynamic collection? We’ve got you covered. This journey helps shed new light on old favorites by tracking the development of modern art in the Western world through thirteen works located throughout the Robert & Elisabeth Wilmers Building. Begin with the realism of Gustave Courbet in the mid-nineteenth century and conclude with the Pop art of Andy Warhol in the mid-twentieth century.
Featured Voices:
• Janne Sirén, Peggy Pierce Elfvin Director
• Joe Martin Lin-Hill, former Deputy Director
• Cathleen Chaffee, Charles Balbach Chief Curator
• Holly E. Hughes, Godin-Spaulding Senior Curator for the Collection
• Tina Rivers Ryan, Curator
• Julia Bottoms, artist
Gustave Courbet
French, 1819-1877
La source de la Loue (The Source of the Loue), ca. 1864
Oil on canvas
42 1/4 x 54 1/8 inches (107.4 x 137.5 cm)
George B. and Jenny R. Mathews Fund, 1959
1959:1
Claude Monet
French, 1840-1926
Chemin de halage à Argenteuil (Towpath at Argenteuil, Winter), 1875-1876
Oil on canvas
23 5/8 x 39 3/8 inches (60 x 100 cm)
Gift of Charles Clifton, 1919
1919:8
Vincent van Gogh
Dutch, active in France, 1853-1890
La maison de La Crau (The Old Mill), 1888
Oil on canvas
25 1/2 x 21 1/4 inches (65 x 54 cm)
Bequest of A. Conger Goodyear, 1966
1966:9.22
Paul Cézanne
French, 1839-1906
Le matin en Provence (Morning in Provence), ca. 1900-1906
Oil on canvas
25 1/2 x 21 1/4 inches (65 x 54 cm)
Bequest of A. Conger Goodyear, 1966
1966:9.22
Pablo Picasso
Spanish, 1881-1973
Nude Figure, late spring 1910
Oil on canvas
39 x 30 3/4 inches (99.1 x 78 cm)
General Purchase Funds, 1954
1954:11
© Succession Picasso / Artists Rights Society (ARS) New York
Wilhelm Lehmbruck
German, 1881-1919
Die Knieende (Kneeling Woman), 1911
Cast stone
Edition of 4
69 1/4 x 54 1/2 x 27 1/2 inches (176 x 138 x 69.9 cm)
Charles Clifton Fund, 1938
1938:12
Vassily Kandinsky
Russian, 1866-1944
Fragment 2 for Composition VII, 1913
Oil on canvas
34 1/2 x 39 1/4 inches (87.6 x 99.7 cm)
Room of Contemporary Art Fund, 1947
RCA1947:1
Frida Kahlo
Mexican, 1907-1954
Self-Portrait with Monkey, 1938
Oil on Masonite
16 x 12 inches (40.6 x 30.5 cm)
Bequest of A. Conger Goodyear, 1966
1966:9.10
© Banco de Mexico Diego Rivera Frida Kahlo Museums Trust, Mexico, D.F. / Artists Rights Society (ARS) New York
Piet Mondrian
Dutch, 1872-1944
Composition No. 11, 1940-42--LONDON, with Blue, Red and Yellow, 1940-1942
Oil on canvas
32 1/2 x 28 inches (82.6 x 71.1 cm)
Room of Contemporary Art Fund, 1944
RCA1944:10
© Mondrian / Holtzman Trust
Horace Pippin
American, 1888-1946
Self-Portrait, 1941
Oil on canvas board
14 x 11 inches (35.6 x 27.9 cm)
Room of Contemporary Art Fund, 1942
RCA1942:2
Arshile Gorky
American, born Khorkom, Turkish Armenia (now Turkey), 1904-1948
The Liver Is the Cock's Comb, 1944
Oil on canvas
73 1/4 x 98 3/8 inches (186.1 x 249.9 cm)
Gift of Seymour H. Knox, Jr., 1956
K1956:4
© Estate of Arshile Gorky / Artists Rights Society (ARS) New York
Jackson Pollock
American, 1912-1956
Convergence, 1952
Oil on canvas
93 1/2 x 155 inches (237.5 x 393.7 cm)
Gift of Seymour H. Knox, Jr., 1956
K1956:7
© Pollock-Krasner Foundation / Artists Rights Society (ARS) New York
Andy Warhol
American, 1928-1987
100 Cans, 1962
72 x 52 inches (182.9 x 132.1 cm)
Gift of Seymour H. Knox, Jr., 1963
K1963:26
© The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts / Artists Rights Society (ARS) New York / Campbell's trademarks used with permission of Campbell Soup Company
