Exhibition
Klee and America
Mar 9 — May 22, 2006
The exhibition addressed the enthusiastic reception for the artist’s work in the United States, especially during the 1930s and 40s.
Paul Klee
(1879-1940)
Flowers in the Night, 1930
Watercolor on paste-primed paper, mounted on cardboard
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art. Gift of Charlotte Mack
© 2024 Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York
Paul Klee
(1879-1940)
Flowers in the Night, 1930
Watercolor on paste-primed paper, mounted on cardboard
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art. Gift of Charlotte Mack
© 2024 Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York
Paul Klee (1879-1940) was, by the 1910s, one of the leading figures within the European modernist movement. His acclaim in Europe was quickly paralleled in the United States, where both private collectors and major museums sought out his works. This exhibition addresses the enthusiastic reception for the artist’s work in the United States, especially during the 1930s and 1940s.
It also illustrates the connections between the avant-garde art of Klee and the art of the ancient Americas. Klee and America features more than sixty paintings and drawings by Klee, with loans from private and public collections in the United States and abroad.
After its presentation at Neue Galerie New York, the exhibition will travel to The Phillips Collection in Washington, D.C., and The Menil Collection in Houston.