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FROM HOPPER TO ROTHKO: AMERICA’S ROAD TO MODERN ART

Following its opening exhibition, the Museum Barberini will present its first international cooperation project with the exhibition From Hopper to Rothko: America’s Road to Modern Art from June 17 to October 3, 2017. For this, The Phillips Collection in Washington, D.C., is sending 68 works of early American modern art to Germany for the first time. 

American art from the first half of the twentieth century is still relatively unknown in Europe. The three central themes of the exhibition – landscapes, portraits, and cityscapes – present a cross-section of American painting. The show will trace the beginnings of abstract painting, which also developed during this time. After 1945, this culminated in Abstract Expressionism, and New York City became the new center of the art world. Works from The Phillips Collection highlight all of these developments.

Edward Hopper: Sunday, 1926, Phillips Collection, Washington D.C.

Edward Hopper: Sunday, 1926, Phillips Collection, Washington D.C.

Boat and Grain Elevators No. 2 (1942) Ralston Crawford. Courtesy © Museum Barberini

Boat and Grain Elevators No. 2 (1942) Ralston Crawford. Courtesy © Museum Barberini

Exhibition view "From Hopper to Rothko: America's Road to Modern Art", Museum Barberini, Photo: Helge Mundt, © Museum Barberini.

Exhibition view “From Hopper to Rothko: America’s Road to Modern Art”, Museum Barberini, Photo: Helge Mundt, © Museum Barberini.

The exhibition From Hopper to Rothko: America’s Road to Modern Art will provide a panorama of subjects and styles ranging from Impressionism to Abstract Expressionism – taking visitors on a journey through landscape art, portrait painting, and cityscapes to Color Field Painting, with works along the way by George Inness (1825–1894), Marsden Hartley (1877–1943), Georgia O’Keeffe (1887–1986), Richard Diebenkorn (1922–1993), and more.

With this joint project, Dr. Ortrud Westheider, Director of the Museum Barberini, continues the Museum Barberini’s programmatic approach to showing world-famous works of art in thematic exhibitions. Following her 2009 Hamburg exhibition Modern Life: Edward Hopper and His Time, she now presents the diversity of American modern art in eight thematic galleries. “America’s road to modern art is exemplified by works from The Phillips Collection. This partnership is a great honor for the Museum Barberini.”

Edward Hopper: Approaching The City, 1946, The Phillips Collection, Washington, D.C

Edward Hopper: Approaching The City, 1946, The Phillips Collection, Washington, D.C

Marsden Hartley: Mountain Lake-Autumn, C. 1910, The Phillips Collection, Washington, D.C..

Marsden Hartley: Mountain Lake-Autumn, C. 1910, The Phillips Collection, Washington, D.C..

Kenneth Noland: April, 1960, The Phillips Collection, Washington, D.C., © The Estate Of Kenneth Noland / Vg Bild-Kunst, Bonn 2017

Kenneth Noland: April, 1960, The Phillips Collection, Washington, D.C., © The Estate Of Kenneth Noland / Vg Bild-Kunst, Bonn 2017

Dr. Dorothy M. Kosinski, Director of The Phillips Collection, Washington, D.C.: “We are pleased to send major works from our collection to Potsdam in order to present American modern art to Europe. The newly opened Museum Barberini is an excellent place to showcase these objects.”

Museum Barberini, Alter Markt, Humboldtstraße 5–6, 14467 Potsdam, Germany

Arthur G. Dove: Red Sun, 1935, Phillips Collection, Washington, D.C.

Arthur G. Dove: Red Sun, 1935, Phillips Collection, Washington, D.C.

Mark Rothko:Untitled, 1968, Phillips Collection, Washington D.C., Gift Of The Mark Rothko Foundation, Copyright: Kate Rothko-Prizel & Christopher Rothko / Vg Bild-Kunst, Bonn 2016

Mark Rothko:Untitled, 1968, Phillips Collection, Washington D.C., Gift Of The Mark Rothko Foundation, Copyright: Kate Rothko-Prizel & Christopher Rothko / Vg Bild-Kunst, Bonn 2016

Miss Amelia Van Buren. Thomas Eakins. Courtesy © Museum Barberini

Miss Amelia Van Buren. Thomas Eakins. Courtesy © Museum Barberini

Black Sea. Milton Avery. 1959 Phillips Collection Acquired 1965 © 2011 Milton Avery Trust / Artists Rights Society (Ars), New York

Black Sea. Milton Avery. 1959 Phillips Collection Acquired 1965 © 2011 Milton Avery Trust / Artists Rights Society (Ars), New York

Ranchos Church, No. II, NM, 1929 Acquired 1930. © The Georgia O'Keeffe Foundation / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York.

Ranchos Church, No. II, NM, 1929 Acquired 1930. © The Georgia O’Keeffe Foundation / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York.

Exhibition view "From Hopper to Rothko: America's Road to Modern Art", Museum Barberini, Photo: Helge Mundt, © Museum Barberini.

Exhibition view “From Hopper to Rothko: America’s Road to Modern Art”, Museum Barberini, Photo: Helge Mundt, © Museum Barberini.

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