She grew up in Nebraska and is best known for her depictions of frontier life on the Great Plains in novels such as O Pioneers, My Ántonia, and Song of the Lark. Important loans come to the exhibition from institutions and private collections worldwide including Museum of Modern Art, New York Musée d’Orsay, Paris Art Institute of Chicago Musée Rodin, Paris National Galleries of Scotland, Edinburgh Museu Nacional d’Art de Catalunya, Barcelona and Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art, Hartford, Connecticut. Willa Cather (18731947), the Pulitzer Prizewinning author of more than fifteen books, is widely considered one of the major fiction writers of the twentieth century. The exhibition includes some of the most iconic works of art created during these decades. Download the accompanying reference guide. With nearly a hundred works by artists ranging from Klimt and Munch, Matisse and Picasso to Mondrian and Kandinsky complemented by a selection of sculpture by artists including Rodin and Camille Claudel, the exhibition follows the creation of a new, modern art, free of convention, taking in Expressionism, Cubism and Abstraction. The final book in Willa Cathers Great Plains trilogy, My Ántonia is a lyrical tribute to the bygone pioneer life and the struggles and successes of Americas early settlers. The exhibition celebrates the achievements of three giants of the era: Paul Cézanne, Vincent van Gogh and Paul Gauguin and follows the influences they had on younger generations of French artists, on their peers and on wider circles of artists across Europe in Barcelona, Berlin, Brussels and Vienna. The decades between 1880 and the outbreak of the First World War in 1914 were a complex, vibrant period of artistic questioning, searching, risk-taking and innovation.
Explore a period of great upheaval when artists broke with established tradition and laid the foundations for the art of the 20th and the 21st centuries.
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