Coming Of Age: American Art 1850s-1950s
'With over a century of works and full of surprises, a
fascinating show reveals how American painting finally broke with
Europe' Laura Cumming, The Observer, Sunday
March 16 2008
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Coming of Age: American Art
1850-1950s featured 70 works from the
Addison Gallery of American Art, Boston, and
represented a century of US art - covering a variety of styles and
subjects.
Sea paintings by Winslow Homer, portraits
by Thomas Eakins, landscape by John Singer
Sargent and James McNeil Whistler, flower
painting by Georgia O'Keefe and abstract art by
Jackson Pollock were among the famous works in
this exhibition which charted the development of
American Art.
Over the hundred year period covered in the exhibtion, American
art and culture came of age, evolving from the provincial to
the international.