Event Item: 00115

Coming of Age: American Art, 1850s to 1950s

Exhibition: 28th Jun 2008 to 12th Oct 2008

Source: http://www.guggenheim-venice.it

Over the period from the 1850s to the 1950s, American art and culture came of age, evolving from the provincial to the international and moving from literal depictions of the particular to abstract interpretations of universal ideals. Coming of Age explores the complex and extended process of maturation that took place throughout this formative century of American art.

Drawn from the Addison Gallery's renowned collection, previously exhibited at the Dulwich Picture Gallery, London, the selection of works offers a comprehensive look at the major developments in a period of one hundred years marked by the rise of modernity and by a dramatic change in the physical and social landscape.

Coming of Age: American Art, 1850s to 1950s is organized by the American Federation of Arts, New York, and the Addison Gallery of American Art, Phillips Academy, Andover, Massachusetts. This exhibition is made possible, in part, by The Crosby Kemper Foundation and by Frank B. Bennett and William D. Cohan, with additional support from the Philip and Janice Levin Foundation Fund for Collection-Based Exhibitions at the American Federation of Arts. Curator: William Agee, Professor of Art History at Hunter College, New York, and Susan Faxon, Associate Director and Curator at the Addison Gallery.

Peggy Guggenheim Collection, Palazzo Venier dei Leoni, Dorsoduro 701, I-30123 Venezia