Urban Vision: American Works on Paper 1900 - 1950

“Urban Vision: American Works on Paper, 1900 - 1950” will explore artistic interpretations of the city. As city dwellers learned to negotiate their way through a rapidly changing environment, the spectacle of metropolitan life became an important focus for artists in the early 20th century. Images of the construction of the massive skyscrapers that came to define New York and Chicago will be juxtaposed against scenes expressive of the human face of these urban spaces. The exhibit will bring together 25 etchings, lithographs and engravings from the IMA’s print collection by such well-known artists as George Bellows, Childe Hassam, Edward Hopper, Reginald Marsh and Isabel Bishop. Also presented will be the work of lesser known, but equally significant artists, such as Gerald Kenneth Geerlings, Charles Locke Wheeler, and Martin Petersen.