In February 2024, the Metropolitan Museum of Art will present the first-ever exhibition The Harlem Renaissance and Transatlantic Modernism. Through some 160 works of painting, sculpture, photography, film and ephemera, the exhibition will explore the breadth and scope of how black artists depicted everyday modern life in the new black cities that took shape in the 1920s-1940s in Harlem, New York, and across the country during the first decades of the Great Migration, when millions of African Americans began leaving the segregated rural South.
The Harlem Renaissance at the heart of the exhibition
The exhibition, which constitutes the first art museum survey of the subject in New York since 1987, will establish that the Harlem Renaissance and its radically new development of the modern black subject are central to the evolution of international modern art.
Featured artists include Charles Alston, Aaron Douglas, Meta Warrick Fuller, William H. Johnson, Archibald Motley, Winold Reiss, Augusta Savage, James Van Der Zee and Laura Wheeler Waring. These artists will be presented in direct juxtaposition with depictions of subjects from the international African diaspora by European counterparts such as Henri Matisse, Edvard Munch and Pablo Picasso, Germaine Casse, Jacob Epstein and Ronald Moody.
A significant percentage of the paintings, sculptures, and works on paper featured in the exhibition come from the extensive collections of Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs), including the Clark Atlanta University Art Museum, the galleries of the Fisk University, the Hampton University Art Museum, and the Howard University Art Gallery. Other major lenders include the Smithsonian American Art Museum and the National Portrait Gallery, with loans outstanding from the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture. The exhibition will include loans from important private collections and major European lenders.
2024-02-10 10:16:54
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