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The new Whitney Museum of American Art’s
inaugural exhibition, America Is Hard to See, closed on September 27. It was a
great start. Of course, most of my time was spent in two places.
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| Peggy Bacon, Lloyd Goodrich |
On the first floor there was the wonderful room
dedicated to the history of the museum, with Peggy Bacon’s Whitney Studio Club
drypoint – PERFECT! Bacon knew Lloyd
Goodrich, art historian and long-time Whitney curator who became director in
1958.
On the top exhibition floor (mostly the show
went chronologically down from the top) there were the protest pieces from the
1930s. There was entire wall devoted to
scenes of lynching including Harry Sternberg’s Southern Holiday, 1935, adjacent to
works by Ben Shahn and Bernarda Bryson Shahn. In more serene areas there were
works by Joe Jones and Louis Lozowick.
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| Harry Sternberg, Detail: Southern Holiday, 1935 |
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