Mid-Century American Abstraction: Master Works on Paper

Included in the show were works by the painters Willem De Kooning, Franz Kline, Mark Tobey, and German émigré Hans Hoffman, and the sculptors Theodore Roszak and David Smith, among other artists working in New York City and elsewhere in the country during this decisive period. Drawn entirely from the Smart Museum of Art’s collection and featuring recent donations from the collection of Janice and Henri Lazarof, this intimate exhibition explored the stimulus of pre-World War II European modernism, especially German Expressionism and French Surrealism, and other sources including Asian art and philosophy on this fecund artistic activity.