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American Artists Abroad, 1900-1950

February 2 - May 11, 2008

Marvin D. Cone, Notre Dame Early Morning, 1929. Oil on artist board, 13 x 14 7/8 in. Bequest of Russell I. and Ruth Hess. 2003.004
American Artists Abroad will be an exhibition drawn from the CRMA's permanent collection and will present and contextualize the achievements of a number of American artists traveling and studying abroad in a post-1900 world.

The CRMA is fortunate to possess a number of works by artists who traveled abroad recording their experiences, including Ethel Coe, Oliver Grover, Charles Keeler, and Albert Sterner.
This is also true of four artists held in depth by the Cedar Rapids Museum of Art: Bertha Jaques (1863-1941), one-time Cedar Rapidian and co-founder of the Chicago Society of Etchers, who traveled abroad extensively between 1902 and 1912; Malvina Hoffman (1887-1966), Rodin's last pupil whose European and worldwide travels were numerous, especially for her Field Museum commission resulting in the Hall of Man; Grant Wood (1892-1942), who made four trips to Europe in the 1920s whose style at this time directly reflects what he studied in Europe; and Marvin Cone (1891-1965), who traveled first during World War I and stayed on to take classes and returned with Wood in 1920 and alone in 1929.

This exhibition is made possible by the Richard D. Pinney Exhibition Fund, Bradley & Riley PC, the Momentum Fund of the Greater Cedar Rapids Community Foundation, Cedar Rapids Bank & Trust, and members of the Cedar Rapids Museum of Art.