TOO SEE AS ARTIST SEE: American Art from the Philips Collection
In 2013, the Tampa Museum of Art is pleased to present 107 important American paintings from The Phillips Collection in Washington, D.C. Founded in 1921 as America鈥檚 first museum of modern art, the Phillips Collection is world renowned for its exceptional collection of modern American and European masterpieces. For this exhibition, curators selected works from the 1850s through 1960s that showcase the full breadth of its American art, featuring those exceptional artists who were able to find their own voices and create work that was deeply personal and expressed with fresh vision, yet connected to the great traditions of the past and the present. Geniuses of American painting in the exhibition include Winslow Homer, Thomas Eakins, Childe Hassam, Rockwell Kent, Georgia O'Keeffe, Edward Hopper, Grandma Moses, Jacob Lawrence, Jackson Pollock, Clyfford Still, and Mark Rothko.
The Phillips Collection is a rich assembly of independent-minded American artists, most of whom were alive and actively exhibiting when their work entered the museum鈥檚 collection. Many of the artists included in the exhibition became acquaintances and good friends with the museum鈥檚 founder, Duncan Phillips (1886-1966), who often acquired their work in large numbers. An early and articulate proponent of America鈥檚 national heritage as 鈥渁 fusion of various sensitivities, a unification of differences,鈥� Phillips was far ahead of his time in seeing diversity as a positive influence on American art and part of its inherent internationalism.
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In 2013, the Tampa Museum of Art is pleased to present 107 important American paintings from The Phillips Collection in Washington, D.C. Founded in 1921 as America鈥檚 first museum of modern art, the Phillips Collection is world renowned for its exceptional collection of modern American and European masterpieces. For this exhibition, curators selected works from the 1850s through 1960s that showcase the full breadth of its American art, featuring those exceptional artists who were able to find their own voices and create work that was deeply personal and expressed with fresh vision, yet connected to the great traditions of the past and the present. Geniuses of American painting in the exhibition include Winslow Homer, Thomas Eakins, Childe Hassam, Rockwell Kent, Georgia O'Keeffe, Edward Hopper, Grandma Moses, Jacob Lawrence, Jackson Pollock, Clyfford Still, and Mark Rothko.
The Phillips Collection is a rich assembly of independent-minded American artists, most of whom were alive and actively exhibiting when their work entered the museum鈥檚 collection. Many of the artists included in the exhibition became acquaintances and good friends with the museum鈥檚 founder, Duncan Phillips (1886-1966), who often acquired their work in large numbers. An early and articulate proponent of America鈥檚 national heritage as 鈥渁 fusion of various sensitivities, a unification of differences,鈥� Phillips was far ahead of his time in seeing diversity as a positive influence on American art and part of its inherent internationalism.
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