Artistic Connections in the Permanent Collection

Diego Rivera (Mexican, 1886-1957). Enrielando, Moscú (Sawing Rails, Moscow), 1927. Conté crayon on paper, 25 x 19 in. Artis—Naples, The Baker Museum. Gift of Harry Pollak, 2002.2.057.
Upcoming exhibition
April 1 – July 30
Located on the first floor of The Baker Museum
This exhibition showcases selected modern artworks of the Americas drawn from The Baker Museum’s permanent collection. Through the lens of artists’ social networks, it showcases visual and thematic interconnections manifested in the artworks, while also revealing their historical contexts, imperative for understanding developments within modern art over the span of time between 1907 and 1968. Some of the categories of social relationships highlighted include teachers and students, gallerists and artists, couples, masters and assistants and artist groups. The exhibition provides glimpses into how artistic ideas were exchanged and shared, how avant-garde styles spread and cross-cultural artistic pollination occurred in the early and mid-20th century.
It demonstrates that the vibrancy of modern art as it developed in the United States resulted from the influx of immigrants and the activity of sojourning foreign artists such as Mexican muralists, as well as the forays of American artists abroad. Artworks in the exhibition include those by Ilya Bolotowsky, Hans Hofmann, Stanton Macdonald-Wright, José Clemente Orozco, Betty Parsons, Diego Rivera and Alfred Stieglitz, to name only a few.
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Three Degrees of Separation: Artistic Connections in the Permanent Collection is organized by Artis—Naples, The Baker Museum and curated by Rangsook Yoon, Ph.D., curator of modern art.