Today at the Museum

American Art 1950s–1970s

January 25–October 18, 2009
Tower Gallery

The Dallas Museum of Art’s postwar American art holdings are among the great strengths of its collections. Rich in major abstract expressionist paintings, as well as responses to that movement in the collage-based work of Jasper Johns and Robert Rauschenberg, the depth of our postwar holdings reflects several important developments in American art from the 1950s through the 1970s. In these decades, the dominance of European abstraction before World War II gave way to the rise of New York as a center of the avant-garde, while setting the stage for numerous movements and styles whose influence is still being felt today.

The exhibition is organized by Charles Wylie, The Lupe Murchison Curator of Contemporary Art at the Dallas Museum of Art.

Image:

Richard Lindner, Rock-Rock, 1966, oil on canvas, Dallas Museum of Art, gift of Mr. and Mrs. James H. Clark, 1968.14, © Richard Lindner/Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York/ADAGP, Paris

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