"Crafting Modernism: Midcentury American Art and Design" Exhibition

Museum of Arts & Design

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Focusing on the dynamic relationship between craft and design, "Crafting Modernism: Midcentury American Art and Design" showcases the bold new directions taken in media and aesthetics during the postwar years. This historic exhibition is the fourth part of an ongoing series of shows for The Centenary Project—the first in-depth examination of American craft in the 20th century. The first three exhibitions were presented at the Museum between 1993 and 1995.

Organized by MAD curators Jeannine Falino and Jennifer Scanlan, Crafting Modernism underscores the growth and transformation of American life during the turbulent 1960s through art, craft, and design. Featuring the work of more than 160 artists and designers, including iconic figures such as Wendell Castle and Jack Lenor Larsen, and lesser-known, though highly influential artists and designers such as Katherine Choy and Hui Ka Kwong, Crafting Modernism demonstrates through furniture, textiles, tableware, ceramics, glass, jewelry, sculpture and painting, how the period between 1945 and 1969 proved a key transitional era for American craft and design.

[Image: Paul Evans "Screen (detail)" (1969) steel, colored pigments 72 x 36 x 5 in.]

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Schedule

from October 12, 2011 to January 15, 2012

Artist(s)

Paul Evans, Arieto (Harry) Bertoia, Alexander Girard, Lee Krasner, Arieto (Harry) Bertoia, Jan Yoors, Eszter Haraszty, Anni Albers, Joe Reyes Apodaca, Robert Arneson, Ruth Asawa, F. Carlton Ball, Kenneth Bates, Garry Knox Bennett, Arieto (Harry) Bertoia, Jim Blashfield, Lili Blumenau, J.B. Blunk, Stewart Brand, Irena Brynner, Alexander Calder, Arthur Espenet Carpenter, Wendell Castle, Orville Chatt, Dale Chihuly, Fong Chow, Katherine Choy, Hans Christensen, Betty Cooke, Ken Cory, Margret Craver, Popovi Da, Stan Dann, Willis "Bing" Davis, Margaret De Patta, Lucia De Respinis, Jan de Swart, Jay DeFeo, Karl Drerup, Charles Eames, Joel Edwards, Wharton Esherick, Claire Falkenstein, Vincent Ferrini, Arline M. Fisch, Elsa Freund, Michael Frimkess, Alexander Girard, Adolph Gottlieb, Linda Gravenites, Trude Guermonprez, Ted Hallman, Irving Harper, Edith Kiertener Heath, Maurice Heaton, Helena Hernmarck, Sheila Hicks, Michael Higgins, Jack Rogers Hopkins, Ka Kwong Hui, Carl Jennings, Vladimir Kagan, Jun Kaneko, Karen Karnes, Alton Kelley, Brent Kington, Howard Kottler, Sam Kramer, Jack Lenor Larsen, Ibram Lassaw, Stanley Lechtzin, James Leedy, Dorothy Liebes, Marvin Lipofsky, Harvey Littleton, Charles Loloma, Glen Lukens, Thomas Lynn, Warren MacKenzie, Bonnie MacLean, Sam Maloof, John C. Marshall, John Mason, Rex Mason, James Melchert, Frederick Miller, John Paul Miller, Joel Philip Myers, George Nakashima, Gertrud Natzler, George Nelson, John Neuhart, Lloyd Kiva New, Rude Osolnik, Earl Pardon, Ronald Hayes Pearson, Richard Pousette-Dart, Phillip Lloyd Powell, James Prestini, John Prip, Ruth Radakovich, Robert Rauschenberg, Merry Renk, Jens Risom, Ed Rossbach, Eero Saarinen, Edwin Scheier, Mary Ann Schildknecht, Christian Schmidt, Richard Schultz, June Schwarcz, Kay Sekimachi, Ronald Senungetuk, Richard Shaw, Tommy Simpson, Olaf Skoogfors, Arthur Smith, Evert Sodergren, Ramona Solberg, Paul Soldner, Robert Sperry, Rudolf Staffel, John Stephenson, Marianne Strengell, Toshiko Takaezu, Lenore Tawney, Donald Paul Tompkins, Rick Turner, Robert Turner, Peter Voulkos, Lynda Watson-Abbott, H. C. Westerman, Katherine Westphal, Byron Wilson, Wes Wilson, Bob Winston, J. Fred Woell, Moshe Zabari, Ernest Ziegfeld

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