This major loan exhibition aims to give a panoramic view of forty years of modern American art, from the introduction of new ideas derived from Impressionism into the national realistic tradition with Winslow Homer, the Ash Can School, the development of abstract, Afro-American or regionalist trends, up to the first major works of those who came to be known as the Abstract Expressionists, Jackson Pollock and Barnett Newman. The exhibition brings together paintings and drawings, photographs and a few sculptures, allowing the public to trace the evolution of art in the North American continent which, over nearly half a century, produced many masterpieces that are still unknown in France.
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