Elaine de Kooning (1918 – 1989), “Black Mountain #6,” 1948. Enamel on paper mounted on canvas. The Heckscher Museum of Art, Huntington, NY. Museum purchase. 1991.20.
Southern/Modern June 17 — December 10, 2023
“Southern/Modern” is the first project to comprehensively survey the rich array of paintings and works on paper created in the American South during the first half of the 20th century.
Featuring more than 100 works of art drawn from public and private collections across the country, it brings to- gether a generation’s worth of scholarship. The exhibi- tion takes a broad view of the South, considering artists who worked in states below the Mason-Dixon line and as far west as those bordering the Mississippi River. It is structured around key themes that cut across state lines and takes an inclusive view of the artists working in the region. It also includes a number of major artists from outside the region who produced significant bodies of work while visiting. “Southern/Modern” provides the fullest, richest and most accurate overview to date of the artistic activity in the South during this period and illumi- nates the important and hitherto overlooked role that it played in American art history.
“Southern/Modern” is organized by the Mint Museum in collaboration with the Georgia Museum of Art and is accom- panied by a fully illustrated publication featuring essays by leading scholars in the field and produced in collaboration with the University of North Carolina Press. Curator: Dr. Jonathan Stuhlman (senior curator of American art, Mint Museum) and independent scholar Martha R. Severens In-house curators: Shawnya L. Harris, Larry D. and Brenda A. Thomp- son Curator of African American and African Diasporic Art, and Jeffrey Richmond-Moll, curator of American art Sponsors: Lead support for “Southern/Modern” is provided by the Luce Foundation for American Art. Additional support from the Terra Foundation for American Art; the Wyeth Foundation for American Art; the National Endowment for the Arts; and the Betsy and Alfred Brand Fund at the Mint Museum.
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