Degas to Diebenkorn: The Phillips Collects through 5.25.08

This exhibition celebrates an extraordinary array of newly acquired and promised gifts to the museum. It features nearly 100 works by European and American modern masters including Gustave Caillebotte, Edgar Degas,
Hans Hofmann, Paul Klee, Ansel Adams, Milton Avery, Alexander Calder, Richard Diebenkorn, Elizabeth Murray, Robert Motherwell, Aaron Siskind, and David Smith, as well as living artists William Christenberry, Howard Hodgkin, Ellsworth Kelly, Sean Scully, and many others. The strength and variety of these gifts and acquisitions include some of the most significant developments in painting,
photography, works on paper, and sculpture from the 19th to the 21st century.

This exhibition is supported by the Lichtenberg Family Foundation and Linda Lichtenberg Kaplan. © The Phillips Collection, 2008

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[seanpatrickdonovan87]

at 0:49 who painted this?

[lolipuf]

Richard Diebenkorn is included in the books:

American Abstract Expressionism of the 1950s An Illustrated Survey ISBN:0967799414

American Abstract and Figurative Expressionism Style is Timely Art is Timeless ISBN:096779922

[jeffreycollins]

Holy Moly that Diebenkorn is huge. I've gotta make it down to DC to see these paintings, and the ROTHKO room.

[ppfuchs]

The Elizabeth Murray lithograph, which sort of looks like a pop-up book, is really a great acquisition for the Phillips. That's a surprising thing to say about a lithograph, but it is a surprising work in every way. Unfortunately it didn't make it into this little film.