Collection Exhibitions
After the Front Line: Artists Who Served in the World Wars
Completed8/29/2014 - 12/23/2014
Organizing institution: Krannert Art Museum at University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
Primary Curator: Kathryn Koca Polite
To complement La Grande Guerre: French Posters and Photographs from World War I, the exhibition After the Front Line presents works by artists who served in various capacities during World War I (1914–18) and World War II (1939–45). Gallery visitors can gain a sense of how military conflict can profoundly influence one’s artistic practice, as well as how it can alter artists’ worldviews and attitudes toward society. Some of the exhibited works offer scathing social commentaries while others expose the atrocious aftermath of war. Selected from the museum’s permanent collection, the exhibition includes paintings and works on paper by numerous European and American artists, including Max Beckmann, Otto Dix, Leon Golub, George Grosz, Jack Levine, Ellsworth Kelly, Henry Moore, and Jacques Villon.
- Krannert Art Museum 8/29/2014 - 12/23/2014
- André Kertész (Budapest, Hungary, 1894 - 1985, New York, NY, USA)
- Claude Ronald Bentley (New York, NY, USA, 1915 - 1990, Chicago, IL, USA)
- Cleve Gray (New York, NY, USA, 1918 - 2004, Hartford, CT, USA)
- Ellsworth Kelly (Newburgh, NY, USA, 1923 - 2015, Spencertown, NY, USA)
- Erich Heckel (Döbeln, Germany, 1883 - 1970, Radolfzell, Germany)
- George Grosz (Berlin, Germany, 1893 - 1959, Berlin, Germany)
- Henry Moore (Castleford, England, UK, 1898 - 1986, Much Hadham, England, UK)
- Ivan Albright (Chicago, IL, USA, 1897 - 1983, Woodstock, VT, USA)
- Jack Levine (Boston, MA, USA, 1915 - 2010, New York, NY, USA)
- Jacques Villon (Damville, France, 1875 - 1963, Puteaux, France)
- Joseph Goto (Hilo, HI, USA, 1916 - 1994, Pawtucket, RI, USA)
- Leon Golub (Chicago, IL, USA, 1922 - 2004, New York, NY, USA)
- Max Beckmann (Leipzig, Germany, 1884 - 1950, New York, NY, USA)
- Otto Dix (Untermhaus, Germany, 1891 - 1969, Singen, Germany)
- Paul Klee (Münchenbuchsee, Switzerland, 1879 - 1940, Muralto, Switzerland)
- Rico Lebrun (Naples, Italy, 1900 - 1964, Malibu, CA, USA)
- Robert Rauschenberg (Port Arthur, TX, USA, 1925 - 2008, Captiva Island, FL, USA)
- Yves Tanguy (Paris, France, 1900 - 1955, Woodbury, CT, USA)
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