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From Picasso To Fontana: Collecting Modern And Postwar Art In The Eisendrath Years, 1960-1968
In the 1960s works by some of the most significant European artists of the first half of the twentieth century鈥攊ncluding Georges Braque, Henri Matisse, and Pablo Picasso, as well as seminal contemporary figures, such as Alberto Burri, Lucio Fontana, Pierre Soulages, and Antoni T脿pies鈥攚ere donated to or purchased for the Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum (then the Washington University Gallery of Art). William N. Eisendrath Jr., served as curator and later the first director of the Museum during this period, shepherding the collection as it grew to include over fifty new acquisitions of European modernism and cutting-edge post-World War ll abstraction. Among the works that entered the collection at this time is Pablo Picasso's Women of Algiers, Variation N (1955), one of a series of fifteen paintings that Picasso made after Eug猫ne Delacroix's well-known painting The Women of Algiers in their Apartment (1834) in the Mus茅e du Louvre in Paris. A gift of Etta Steinberg to commemorate the 1960 dedication of Washington University's Steinberg Hall, it demonstrated the Museum's commitment to collecting contemporary European trends.
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In the 1960s works by some of the most significant European artists of the first half of the twentieth century鈥攊ncluding Georges Braque, Henri Matisse, and Pablo Picasso, as well as seminal contemporary figures, such as Alberto Burri, Lucio Fontana, Pierre Soulages, and Antoni T脿pies鈥攚ere donated to or purchased for the Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum (then the Washington University Gallery of Art). William N. Eisendrath Jr., served as curator and later the first director of the Museum during this period, shepherding the collection as it grew to include over fifty new acquisitions of European modernism and cutting-edge post-World War ll abstraction. Among the works that entered the collection at this time is Pablo Picasso's Women of Algiers, Variation N (1955), one of a series of fifteen paintings that Picasso made after Eug猫ne Delacroix's well-known painting The Women of Algiers in their Apartment (1834) in the Mus茅e du Louvre in Paris. A gift of Etta Steinberg to commemorate the 1960 dedication of Washington University's Steinberg Hall, it demonstrated the Museum's commitment to collecting contemporary European trends.
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