New beginnings : an American story of romantics and modernists in the West / introduction by Tia Collection curator Laura Finlay Smith ; essay by MaLin Wilson-Powell ; editor and project manager, Laura Finlay Smith
Yellowstone Art Museum (Billings, Mont.) Search this
Physical description:
247 pages : illustrations (chiefly color), portraits ; 29 cm
Type:
Exhibitions
In art
Exhibition catalogs
Illustrated works
Place:
New Mexico
Santa Fe
Taos
West (U.S.)
Date:
2018
20th century
Notes:
Catalog of an exhibition held at Western Spirit: Scottsdale's Museum of the West, Scottsdale, Arizona, October 16, 2018-September 22, 2019; Booth Western Art Museum, Cartersville, Georgia, February 1-May 3, 2020; Dayton Art Institute, Dayton, Ohio, May 30-September 13, 2020; Crocker Art Museum, Sacramento, California, November 1, 2020-January 31, 2021; Yellowstone Art Museum, Billings, Montana, March 25-July 18, 2021.
"Newbeginnings: An American Story of Romantics and Modernists in the West" : October 16, 2018-September 22, 2019, Western Spirit: Scottsdale's Museum of the West, Scottsdale, Arizona, United States.
"Newbeginnings: An American Story of Romantics and Modernists in the West" : February 1-May 3, 2020, Booth Western Art Museum, Cartersville, Georgia, United States.
"Newbeginnings: An American Story of Romantics and Modernists in the West" : May 30-September 13, 2020, Dayton Art Institute, Dayton, Ohio, United States.
"Newbeginnings: An American Story of Romantics and Modernists in the West" : November 1, 2020-January 31, 2021, Crocker Art Museum, Sacramento, California, United States.
"Newbeginnings: An American Story of Romantics and Modernists in the West" : March 25-July 18, 2021, Yellowstone Art Museum, Billings, Montana, United States.
Summary:
"For generations, the visual drama of the Rocky Mountains has seduced artists. In the late 19th and early 20th centuries, painters, photographers, and sculptors who visited or settled in northern New Mexico created evocative visions that came to represent the West for audiences across America. During the 1920s and 1930s, Santa Fe and Taos were recognized as two of the nation's--and world's--most important art communities. The cosmopolitan denizens of these relatively remote outposts embraced a multicultural America by engaging with Native American and Hispano populations, and, spurred by the enduring mystique of New Mexico as 'the land of enchantment,' succeeding generations have continued that legacy." --publisher's description, dust jacket.
