The busy and thriving Brooklyn Museum presents – Youth and Beauty: Art of the American Twenties, until January 29, 2012.  

The exhibition “brings together for the first time the work of sixty-eight painters, sculptors, and photographers who explored a new mode of modern realism in the years bounded by the aftermath of the Great War and the onset of the Great Depression.”.

Some of the artists represented are:

Thomas Hart Benton, Imogen Cunningham, Charles Demuth, Aaron Douglas, Edward Hopper, Gaston Lachaise, Yasuo Kuniyoshi, Luigi Lucioni, Gerald Murphy, Georgia O’Keeffe, Alfred Stieglitz, and Edward Weston.

Youth and Beauty: Art of the American Twenties

Brooklyn Museum, 5th Flr, 200 Eastern Parkway, Brooklyn, New York

 

(Images: Winold Reiss, 1886–1953, Sari Price Patton, 1925  and  George Copeland Ault, 1891–1948, Brooklyn Ice House, 1926)