National Museum of African American History and Culture Breaks Ground

The Dixon Gallery and Gardens presents Modern Dialect. American Paintings from the John and Susan Horseman Collection an exhibition on view April 29, 2012 – Sunday, July 15, 2012.

CLYDE SINGER (1908-1999) Active in Malvern, Ohio, Barn Dance, 1938, Oil on canvas, 39 ½ x 49 ½ inches

A follow-up to the Dixon’s popular 2009 exhibition, Regional Dialect, Modern Dialect will bring together more than 50 American Scene and modernist paintings from the 1930s and 1940s. The exhibition reveals both the shared concerns and jubilations of artists from every region of the country during a fluctuating and demanding time in American history. From simplified and fragmented rural landscapes to modern industrial cities and the people that inhabit them to purely abstract compositions, Modern Dialect illustrates the scope of the American modernist aesthetic and the vision and integrity each artist brought to the representation of the American experience. With works by George Ault, Charles Sheeler, John Steuart Curry, and Charles Burchfield.

Dixon Gallery and Gardens, 4339 Park Avenue, Memphis, Tennessee 38117
Office: (901) 761-5250 FAX: (901) 682-0943
www.dixon.org

Related posts:

1. Dixon Gallery and Gardens presents Rembrandt, Rubens, and the Golden Age of Painting from the Speed Art Museum
2. Dixon Gallery & Gardens Opens From Houdini to Hugo. The Art of Brian Selznick
3. Brunnier Art Museum Announces Salon to Modern Gallery. Paintings from the Permanent Collection
4. Walker Art Gallery Announces The Living and the Dead Paintings and sculpture by John Kirby
5. Collection of Early American Furniture, Dutch and American Paintings, and Works on Paper Promised to the National Gallery of Art Washington