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Introduction

"The Center Cannot Hold"

Art from 1900-1920
March 1 - July 1, 1999

Notes: In 2000 this became a permanent collection installation, without the title but with textiles and works on paper continuing to rotate in and out of the show. permanent collection - few loans

Selected Objects

Henri Matisse

Still Life with Lemons, 1914

Lyonel Feininger, designer

Church (with Leaning Tower) (Kirche mit Schiefem Turm), 1918

Pablo Picasso

Seated Woman with a Book (Femme assise au livre), ca. 1910

Henri Victor Gabriel Le Fauconnier

Village in the Mountains, 1911-1912

Paul Manship

Dancer and Gazelles, 1916

Jacques Villon

Head of a Woman, 1914

Gustav Kalhammer, designer

Gloggnitz, 1910-11

Georges Braque

Still Life, 1918

Gerta Overbeck

Man with Wheelbarrow, 1921

Henri Matisse

The Green Pumpkin, ca. 1916

Jean Metzinger

Portrait of Albert Gleizes, 1911-1912

Elie Nadelman

Fawn, ca. 1915

Elie Nadelman

Head, ca. 1920

Elie Nadelman

Deer, ca. 1915

Robert Delaunay

The Towers of Laon, ca. 1914

Franz Marc

Antilope (The Antelope), 1912

Paul Klee

Recto: Columbarium of the Ochsenfrosch Family (Urnenstatte der Familie Ochsenfrosch), 1922

Franz Marc

Two Horses, 1912

Nancy Elizabeth Prophet

Negro Head, before 1927

Oskar Kokoschka

Portrait of Franz Hauer, ca. 1914

Henri Rousseau

A Corner of the Park at Bellevue, Autumn, Sunset (Un Coin du plateau de Bellevue. automne, soleil couchant), 1902

Maurice Denis

Classical Landscape with Figures, 1898

Pablo Picasso

The Diners (Les Soupeurs), 1901

Félix Elie Tobeen

The Old Bridge, ca. 1912

Arthur Bowen Davies

Clothed in Dominion, ca. 1912

Patrick Henry Bruce

Forms, ca. 1920-1921

Henri Victor Gabriel Le Fauconnier

Mountaineers Attacked by Bears, 1910-1912

Raymond Duchamp-Villon

Seated Woman, Study, 1914

Elie Nadelman

Ideal Head, ca. 1910-1911

More objects +

Exhibition Checklist

"The Center Cannot Hold" : Art from 1900-1920

March 1 - July 1, 1999
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