"Modern Masters from the Smithsonian American Art Museum," an exhibition of 43 paintings and sculptures, will come to the Reynolda House Museum of American Art this fall.
The exhibition, which features 31 artists who came to maturity in the 1950s, will run from Oct. 7 through Dec. 31.
The Reynolda House is the final stop of the exhibition, which was shown in art museums in Nashville, Tenn., Savannah, Ga., Greensburg, Pa., and Dayton, Ohio.
It is the first exhibition from the Smithsonian in Washington to be displayed in North Carolina since 2002. The Reynolda House is at 2250 Reynolda Road.
The display explores the painters and sculptors "who sought to understand the motivations that shape human life," the Reynolda House said in a statement. "And in doing so, created a compelling new art and emerged as visual spokesmen in post-war America."
The exhibition will include the paintings of Adolph Gottlieb and Robert Motherwell, who will be among the featured artists known as abstract expressionists.
Gottlieb, a native of New York, was a painter, sculptor and graphic artist. He died in March 1974 at the age of 70.
Motherwell, a painter and printmaker, was a faculty member at Black Mountain College in North Carolina in the 1940s and '50s. The college closed in 1955. Motherwell died in July 1991 at the age of 76.
The exhibition will include works from Romare Bearden, who was born in Charlotte in 1911 and died in 1988 at the age of 76. City officials in Charlotte named a street after him, intersecting West Boulevard, in the city's western section.
Other artists include Franz Kline, Michael Goldberg, Hans Hofmann, Sam Francis, Joan Mitchell, Josef Albers, Ilya Bolotowsky, Louise Nevelson, Esteban Vicente, Ad Reinhardt, Anne Truitt, Nathan Oliveira, Larry Rivers, Jim Dine, David Driskell and Grace Hartigan.
When the Smithsonian exhibition was displayed last year at the Dayton Art Institute in Dayton, Ohio, nearly 5,000 people visited the museum to see it, a spokesman for the institute said. The exhibition was displayed for 2½ months there.
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