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Boom: Art and Design in the 1940s
Special Exhibition

Boom: Art and Design in the 1940s

The 1940s witnessed major shifts in politics, science, economics, industry, the arts, and culture, which coincided with a time of scarcity, limitation, and the catastrophic global conflict of World War II.

Throughout this tumultuous period, artists brought new ideas to their work across media, from fashion and textiles, craft and design, to printmaking, drawing, photography, painting, and sculpture.

SHOP BOOM PRINTS
Wanda Gág, Alfie's Flowers (Window Plants), 1927
Wanda Gág
Henry Ossawa Tanner, Portrait of the Artist's Mother, 1897
Henry Ossawa Tanner
Horace Pippin, The Park Bench (Man on a Bench), 1946
Horace Pippin
Claude Monet, Poplars, End of Autumn, 1891
Impressionism
Utagawa Hiroshige I, Motoyanagi Bridge and the Ekoin at Ryogoku, 1857
Japanese Woodblock Prints
Kay Sage Tanguy, Unicorns Came Down to the Sea, 1948
Surrealism

Collection Highlights

Henry Ossawa Tanner, The Annunciation, 1898
Tanner
The Annunciation
Claude Monet, Japanese Footbridge and the Water Lily Pool, Giverny, 1899
Monet
Japanese Footbridge
Henri Matisse, Yellow Odalisque, 1937
Matisse
Yellow Odalisque
Horace Pippin, The Getaway, 1939
Pippin
The Getaway
Vincent van Gogh, Sunflowers, 1888 or 1889
van Gogh
Sunflowers
Dorothea Tanning, Birthday, 1942
Tanning
Birthday
Vasily Kandinsky, Circles in a Circle, 1923
Kandinsky
Circles in a Circle
Eduard Charlemont, The Moorish Chief, 1878
Charlemont
The Moorish Chief
Georgia O'Keeffe, From the Lake No. 3, 1924
O'Keeffe
From the Lake No. 3