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The American Scene - Prints from Hopper to Pollock at the British Museum
Event: The American Scene - Prints from Hopper to Pollock
Date: April 10th until September 7th 2008
A new exhibition is opening close to luxury London hotel 41 this spring that might appeal to guests with an appreciation for American art.
The American Scene will include 150 prints by 74 contemporary American artists such as Josef Albers, George Bellows, Louise Bourgeois, Alexander Calder, Edward Hopper and Grant Wood.
And the British Museum exhibition, which will run from April 10th until September 7th 2008, is set to be the first in the UK to cover prints from the early 1900s to 1960 period.
The curators claim that The American Scene - Prints from Hopper to Pollock examines a period of great change in America beginning with John Sloan's Ashcan School etchings.
These sketches are of "everyday urban experience in the 1900s" while later artists such as Robert Gwathmey, Blanche Grambs and Dox Thrash made socially conscious prints during the Depression.
Guests of luxury London hotel the 41 will be treated to the most comprehensive American print collection outside of the United States that details this period, when they attend the showing at the British Museum.
If visitors to luxury London hotel the 41 miss the exhibit this time, following its run at the British Museum, The American Scene - Prints from Hopper to Pollock will tour in three more UK venues.
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