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Graves, Morris
born 1910 in USA - Fox Valley /Oregon, died 2001 in USA - Loleta / Kalifornien
poster of the exhibition Musée National d'Art Moderne Paris
12 Peintres et Sculpteurs Américains Contemporains
motif of the poster: Wounded Gull
1953 ( april 24 - june 08 )
colour offset
63 cm x 42 cm
creases at the borders, creases, any spots, any heavy traces of handling and age, tax mark
order no. 22938
One of the first exhibitions of American Art in Paris after the Second World war !
Participating Painters: Ivan Le Lorraine Albright, Stuart Davis, Arshile Gorky, Morris Graves, Edward Hopper, John Cane, John Marin, Jackson Pollock, Ben Shahn; / participating sculptors: Alexander Calder, Théodore J. Roszak, David Smith.
The poster shows a motif by Morris Graves, the title of the exhibition catalogue shows a sculpture by Alexander Calder.
Ruby, S. 317, writes that originally Jean Cassou wished a poster with a motif by Edward Hopper, but Porter McCray didn't want it. In the Cold War era the motif of the wounded gull may well have been a deliberate choice, to be juxtaposed with Picasso's Dove of Peace, a famous symbol of the communist supported peace movement.
Lit.:
12 Peintres et Sculpteurs Américains Contemporains, exhibition cat. Musée National d'Art Moderne Paris 1953, with a foreword by Jean Cassou, René d'Harnoncourt and a text by Anrew Carnduff Ritchie
Ruby, Sigrid: "Have We An American Art?" Präsentation und Rezeption amerikanischer Malerei im Westdeutschland und Westeuropa der Nachkriegszeit, Weimar 1999, S.312 ff., especially p.317
About the circumstances and financing of " the first important exhibition of American Art in France since more than fifteen years" look at Saunders, Frances Stonor: Wer die Zeche zahlt... Der CIA und und die Kultur im Kalten Krieg, Berlin 2001, p.258 f.
See also our catalogue 'From Arp to Pollock': Art and exhibition posters in France and Germany 1945-1960, Köln 2016, p.22 f.
