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These galleries present the museum鈥檚 primary collection of works by international modern artists in Europe and the Americas. In the 1960s, a group of famous national collectors who had winter residences in the Palm Springs area initiated a gifting program to establish the museum鈥檚 holdings. These collectors 鈥� including Lenore and Walter Annenberg, Lionel Bauman, Joseph H. Hirshhorn, Raymond Loewy, Walter N. Marks, Seymour Oppenheimer, and Lucile and Ted Weiner 鈥� solicited friends and artists for significant donations of modern art in response to the museum鈥檚 newly focused interest in fine art.  To name just a few, donations included works by artists such as Alexander Archipenko, Milton Avery, Hans Burkhardt, Alexander Calder, Russell Cowles, Lorser Feitelson, Willem de Kooning, Pablo Picasso, and Theodore Stamos. In addition, the museum installed important works belonging to the Weiners, owners of the first major collection of European modern sculpture in the Southwest.

With the museum鈥檚 major expansion initiatives 鈥� its current building in 1976, the Steve Chase modern and contemporary wing in 1996, and the 75th Anniversary celebration in 2013, it again solicited gifts to enhance the collection. Generous donors contributed signature modernist works by Jean Hans Arp, Illya Bolotowsky, Werner Drewes, Jean Dubuffet, Sam Francis, Helen Frankenthaler, Alberto Giacometti, Barbara Hepworth, Morris Lewis, Jacques Lipschitz, Roberto Matta, Henry Moore, Robert Motherwell, David Alfaro Siqueiros, Gino Severini, and Hassel Smith to name just the highlights. Gwen Weiner, daughter of Lucile and Ted, continued her parent鈥檚 generous legacy of donations and long-term loans.

The installation is organized around six key concepts that represent the discursive terms of European and American Modernist aesthetics: Symbol, Unconscious, Geometry, Expression, Gesture and Color, and Figure. Although not exhaustive, these descriptors provide an overview of the defining characteristics of modernism even as they offer insight into the individual artworks on view.