Passage: Selections from the Rose Collection, 1900-1970

Drawing together over 60 important works by an international roster of artists, Passage: Selections from the Rose Collection, 1900-1970 displays a selection of highlights from the Rose Art Museum’s permanent collection. From paintings and sculptures to works on paper, the exhibition presents pieces created throughout the early 1900s to the 1970s.

The museum’s collection from the 20th century mirrors the historical concerns, defining milestones, and sea changes of art history. Passage traces the transition from early figuration and representation to the powerful advent of art informel and abstract expressionism in the post-war era. As painting turned inward to explore the potential of the medium, there was a shift to a heroic scale that turned the canvas into a site of performative action. Pop Art in the 1950s brought the focus back squarely to the banal, everyday object, unexpectedly pointing the way to more conceptual and hybrid approaches to artmaking.

Permanent collection artists on view:
Manuel Álvarez Bravo, Alexander Archipenko, Ilse Bing, Hyman Bloom, Georges Braque, Marc Chagall, Judy Chicago, Robert Colescott, Stuart Davis, Nicolas de Staël, Jim Dine Juan Gris, Marsden Hartley, Al Held, Douglas Huebler, Asger Jorn, Alex Katz, André Kertész, Wilfredo Lam, Morris Louis, René Magritte, Conrad Marca-Relli, John Marin, Marisol, Roberto Matta, Robert Motherwell, Louise Nevelson, Helmut Newton, Isamu Noguchi, Dorothy Norman, Alfonso A. Ossorio, Pablo Picasso, Harvey Quaytman, Antonio Saura, Gino Severini, Thomas Albert Sills, David Smith, Leon Polk Smith, Florine Stettheimer, Emilio Vedova, and Tom Wesselmann.

Curated by Henry and Lois Foster Director and Chief Curator Luis A. Croquer.

This exhibition is supported by the museum’s Henry and Lois Foster Exhibition Fund.