Luminous Modernism: Scandinavian Art Comes to America, 1912 HD

Dr. Patricia G. Berman, coordinating curator, leads a walkthrough of Luminous Modernism: Scandinavian Art Comes to America, 1912 (Introduction by Edward Gallagher, President of The American-Scandinavian Foundation) Luminous Modernism: Scandinavian Art Comes to America, 1912, an international loan exhibition of paintings by Edvard Munch, Vilhelm Hammershøi, Anders Zorn, and other Scandinavian pioneers of modernism, opened October 25, 2011, at Scandinavia House: The Nordic Center in America. The exhibition brought together 48 works by Nordic artists who embraced, and pioneered, the transformative aesthetic innovations that swept the European continent during late 19th- and early 20th-centuries. The exhibition was on view through February 11, 2012. Review of Luminous Modernism in The New York Times: http://www.nytimes.com/2011/12/02/arts/design/luminous-modernism-at-scandinavia-house-review.html