{"id":31240,"date":"2024-02-22T17:47:53","date_gmt":"2024-02-22T22:47:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thewestmoreland.org\/?post_type=exhibition&p=31240"},"modified":"2024-08-12T08:07:43","modified_gmt":"2024-08-12T12:07:43","slug":"the-great-search-art-in-a-time-of-change-1928-1945","status":"publish","type":"exhibition","link":"https:\/\/thewestmoreland.org\/exhibitions\/the-great-search-art-in-a-time-of-change-1928-1945\/","title":{"rendered":"The Great Search: Art in a Time of Change, 1928\u20131945"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

The Great Search: Art in a Time of Change, 1928\u20131945<\/em> surveys the period from the beginning of the Great Depression to the end of World War II to demonstrate how pluralism was a hallmark of the modern American art world. This exhibition features works by Andrew Wyeth, Arthur Dove, Milton Avery, and others.

The Great Search<\/em>‘s title references American Art Today, <\/em>the World\u2019s Fair exhibition held in New York City in 1939.  Organizer Holger Cahill, then national director of the Federal Art Project, spoke in his address of the modern artist\u2019s \u201csearch that takes many paths\u201d\u2014a yearning desire to seek out new and enduring forms that would aid democracy.  One of The Westmoreland\u2019s best-known and loved paintings, Ernest Fiene\u2019s Night Shift, Aliquippa <\/em>(1936), was included in this pivotal presentation.  Drawn primarily from The Westmoreland\u2019s collection, amplified by key loans from public and private collections, the exhibition will provide fresh insight into the individuals, experiences, and both new and traditional aesthetics that define American modern art.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This exhibition is organized by Jeremiah William McCarthy, Chief Curator, The Westmoreland Museum of American Art.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This is one in a series of American art exhibitions created through a multi-year, multi-institutional partnership formed by the Philadelphia Museum of Art as part of the Art Bridges Cohort Program.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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