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 

Painting of an African American man sitting before an easel with a paintbrush in hand. Blue background. Man is wearing a white shirt and black pants.

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

Impressionist style painting of a dark cave

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

Impressionist painting of a lakeshore with snow on the ground

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

Impressionist painting of an old mill in front of hills and with greenery and a stream in front

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

Impressionist painting of a tree and grass and various shades of blues and greens throughout

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 

Cubist portrait of a nude figure in various shades of black, grey, brown, and other neutral tones

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

Statue of a woman kneeling on one knee with her hand placed over her heart

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

Expressionist painting of musical instruments and abstract patterns in shades of blue, yellow, red, and black

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 

Self portrait of Frida Kahlo wearing a white shirt in front of green leaves with a monkey behind her shoulder holding on around her neck

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

Black and white grid with four squares painted blue and three squares painted yellow

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

Painting of an African American man in a white shirt and black pants sitting in front of a canvas, holding a paintbrush. The background is blue

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 

Abstract expressionist painting of gardens with unique colors such as red, brown, yellow, blue and white throughout

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

Abstract expressionist painting that resembles splatter paint with the background layer being black and a neutral beige with red, yellow, blue, and white on top

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 

Artwork of 100 red and white Campbell's soup cans lined up next to one another in rows of 10