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This exhibition stages encounters between social and magic realist artworks from early-to-mid twentieth century with works by five contemporary artists whose works grapple with what it feels to live in the world right now.
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The concept of taking something nonrepresentational and naming it after something “real” unites the works in Knowing and Naming: Abstraction Beyond Reality.
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Featuring a selection of works from the permanent collection handpicked by new Curator of American Art Jeremiah William McCarthy.
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This exhibition explores how, after World War I, artists without formal training “crashed the gates” of major museums in the United States, diversifying the art world across lines of race, ethnicity, class, ability, and gender.
The Westmoreland’s expansive collection of American art with a strong focus on the art and artists of Southwestern Pennsylvania is always available in the Museum’s permanent collection galleries. There is always something new to discover!
