A Modern Vision: European Masterworks from The Phillips Collection
A Modern Vision presents a selection of the most iconic European paintings and sculptures from The Phillips Collection, America's first museum of modern art, which opened in Washington, DC, in 1921. Ranging from the early nineteenth century through the mid-twentieth century, the incomparable collection of "modern art and its sources," as its founder, Duncan Phillips, characterized it, includes distinctive Impressionist, Post-Impressionist, and Expressionist masterworks. Viewers will encounter a stunning array鈥攑aintings from the first half of the nineteenth century by Courbet, Corot, Daumier, Delacroix, and Ingres in dialogue with Impressionist and Post-Impressionist masterpieces by 颁茅锄补苍苍别, Degas, Gauguin, Van Gogh, Manet, Monet, Redon, and Sisley. Central to the exhibition are important works by Bonnard, de Sta毛l, Kandinsky, Matisse, Morandi, and Picasso, artists who shaped the look of the twentieth century. Many of these works have not traveled together in more than twenty years. A Modern Vision, in the words of Duncan Phillips, gathers "congenial spirits among the artists from different parts of the world and from different periods of time," demonstrating "that art is a universal language."
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A Modern Vision presents a selection of the most iconic European paintings and sculptures from The Phillips Collection, America's first museum of modern art, which opened in Washington, DC, in 1921. Ranging from the early nineteenth century through the mid-twentieth century, the incomparable collection of "modern art and its sources," as its founder, Duncan Phillips, characterized it, includes distinctive Impressionist, Post-Impressionist, and Expressionist masterworks. Viewers will encounter a stunning array鈥攑aintings from the first half of the nineteenth century by Courbet, Corot, Daumier, Delacroix, and Ingres in dialogue with Impressionist and Post-Impressionist masterpieces by 颁茅锄补苍苍别, Degas, Gauguin, Van Gogh, Manet, Monet, Redon, and Sisley. Central to the exhibition are important works by Bonnard, de Sta毛l, Kandinsky, Matisse, Morandi, and Picasso, artists who shaped the look of the twentieth century. Many of these works have not traveled together in more than twenty years. A Modern Vision, in the words of Duncan Phillips, gathers "congenial spirits among the artists from different parts of the world and from different periods of time," demonstrating "that art is a universal language."
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