A popular traveling exhibit showcasing American art from an exciting period of the last Century can now be seen at the Dallas Museum of Art/ DMA.  “The 1920s—“The Jazz Age,” “The Roaring Twenties”—was a decade marked by widespread urbanization, industrialization and mechanization, and social phenomena… American artists responded to this dizzying modern world with works that emphatically demonstrate a desire for clarity and wholeness and for the expression of stillness and order… Youth and Beauty: Art of the American Twenties is the first wide-ranging examination of American fine art from the end of World War I through the start 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 – Until May 27, 2012

Dallas Museum of Art
1717 North Harwood
Dallas, Texas

(Images: Joseph Stella, “The Amazon”, 1925–1926 and Gerald Murphy, “Razor”, 1924)