20th-century American Masters on View at High Museum of Art
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| John Stuart Curry (American, 1897-1946). John Brown (1938). Lithograph on paper. High Museum of Art. |
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| Ralph Eugene Meatyard (American, 1925-1972). Untitled (ca. 1964). Gelatin silver print. High Museum of Art. |
By STAN PARCHIN
August 14, 2009
Atlanta, Georgia's High Museum of Art presents two exhibitions of 20th-century American art drawn entirely from its permanent holdings, on view from August 15, 2009 through January 10, 2010.
American Scenes: Art from the Depression in the High Museum Collection includes 42 works from the 1930s, a decade characterized by the American economy’s collapse and an unprecedented period of cultural efflorescence due to New Deal programs (e.g., Works Progress Administration). On display are stylized heroic paintings produced by the Regionalist painters Thomas Hart Benton, John Stuart Curry and Grant Wood. Stark images of everyday life taken by Walker Evans and Dorothea Lange offer an interesting photographic contrast.
Look Again: A Selection of Photographs from the Permanent Collection features 48 images that explore the intersection between reality and fiction. Works by innovators Ralph Eugene Meatyard, Diane Arbus and William Eggleston demonstrate photography’s possibilities as an expressive medium through experimentation. The pictures on exhibit challenge the viewer's understanding of photography as a medium that provides a straightforward record of what the camera's lens captures, encouraging visitors to “look again” at each image displayed.
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