What it Meant to be Modern, 1910–1965

American Works on Paper from the Karen and Kevin Kennedy Collection

Oscar Bluemner, Study for Black by Gold, about 1934. Gouache, watercolor, and graphite under-drawing on white wove paper, laid down to illustration board. Collection of Karen and Kevin Kennedy.

Charles Burchfield, Sun Setting in a Bank of Smoke, 1917. Watercolor and gouache on paper on board. Collection of Karen and Kevin Kennedy. Reproduced with permission of the Charles E. Burchfield Foundation.

Charles Sheeler, Red Against the White, 1957. Tempera on English watercolor board. Collection of Karen and Kevin Kennedy.

Oscar Bluemner, Approaching Black, 1932. Casein-oil-resin emulsion and watercolor on paper mounted to millboard. Collection of Karen and Kevin Kennedy.

Oscar Bluemner, Moon Radiance, 1927. Watercolor with gum coating on hot pressed off-white wove paper laid down by the artist to thick wood panel. Collection of Karen and Kevin Kennedy.

Charles Sheeler, New England Irrelevancies, 1953. Gouache (tempera) and graphite on off-white, lightly textured wove paper. Collection of Karen and Kevin Kennedy.

What it Meant to be Modern, 1910–1965: American Works on Paper from the Karen and Kevin Kennedy Collection is generously supported by the Eleanor and Henry Hitchcock Foundation.