European and American Cubism from the John L. Strauss Loan Collection and the Permanent Collection

9 July–15 October 1980

Cubism is typically associated with two influential artists: Pablo Picasso and Georges Braque. But these two artists, while instrumental in Cubism’s development, were hardly the only practitioners. The Smart Museum was fortunate enough to borrow 35 paintings, drawings, and sculpture from the John L. Strauss Collection to highlight these other artists. French Cubists, Roger de La Fresnaye, Albert Gleizes, Jacques Lipchitz, Andre Lhote, Jean Metzinger, and Louis Marcoussis were represented in the exhibition. The European and American brands of Cubism were also represented, most notably by the Italian artist Gino Severini, German Georg Grosz, and Americans Arthur Dove, and Stanton McDonald Wright. Cubist pieces from the Smart’s permanent collection also complemented the exhibition. 

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